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Deirdre discussed seeing the events of the time through a child's eyes, the experience of visiting South Africa alongside her mother in 2011, and her current work at the National Children's Bureau. She eventually gave birth to a healthy daughter, Loinnir, in England.

On 21 May 2007, she was arrested on a Europeanarrest warrant, again for her allegedinvolvement in the mortar attack.

The extradition bid was denied in November 2007.

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Who is Bernadette Devlin McAliskey?

Josephine BernadetteDevlin McAliskey, usuallyknown as BernadetteDevlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irishsocialist and republicanpolitical activist.

She was released on bail of £2,500. It is an episode about family, home, and learning to dig where you stand.

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After a long campaign in which her mother took a leading role by gatheringsupport from influential citizens, including politicians, from Ireland and the United States, the British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, vetoed the extradition on health grounds. This is a unique conversation with Bernadette and Deirdre about community organising, béaloideas, women's work, solidarity, childhood experiences & childrearing.

She is suspected of having been a member of the Provisional IRA.

She was arrested in 1996 on an extraditionwarrantissued by Germanyaccusing her of involvement in a ProvisionalIrishRepublican Army mortarattackcarried out by MichaelDicksonagainst a British Army compound at Osnabrück. She served as a Member of the UKParliament from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency, in which role she slapped the Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, as a reaction to his comments on Bloody Sunday.

She is the daughter of republican activists, Bernadette and Michael McAliskey. She has been a Vice President at Brookings and a Special Advisor to the Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Who is Róisín McAliskey?

Róisín ElizabethMcAliskey is an Irishpolitical activist. On 2 January 1998, a magistratecleared her extradition to Germany.

Graham is the author of numerous books– most recently Happiness for All: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream (Princeton); The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being (Brookings); and Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires (Oxford) – and has published articles in a range of journals including Science, the World Bank Research Observer, Health Affairs, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Health Economics, and the Journal of Socio-Economics.

Her work has been reviewed in Science, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, among others, and she received a Pioneer Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017, and a Lifetime Distinguished Scholar award the International Society of Quality of Life Studies in 2018.

She lost her seat to John Dunlop of the VanguardProgressiveUnionist Party, aftercomingthird in a four-sided contest in the generalelection of February 1974.

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Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Carol Graham is Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup.

She has an A.B. from Princeton, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins and a PhD from Oxford University.

92: Bernadette and Deirdre McAliskey

Today's episode, the 92nd in the series, coincides with International Women's Day. To mark the occasion we are joined by life-long civil rights activist Bernadette McAliskey and her daughter Deirdre McAliskey.

Bernadette discussed the work she is currently undertaking with the South Tyrone Empowerment Program (STEP), her tour of America in 1969, the new generation in Ireland, and the local and lesser-known women who put their bodies on the line during the war, yet given little space in official accounts of the struggle.