Price of My Soul - Couverture rigide

Devlin, Bernadette

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0233961968 ISBN 13 : 9780233961965

Editeur : HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1969

Synopsis

First Edition: Borzoi/AA Knopf 1969. In the spring of 1969, Bernadette Devlin, age 21, was elected to Parliament - the youngest MP since Pitt. In the summer of 1969 the image of Bernadette - "bejeaned, besweatered, besieged" on the barricades of Bogside, in erupting Northern Ireland - became familiar around the world. In this book, whose final words she wrote in NY only a few days after the battle of Belfast, she tells her own story and the story of the Irish turmoil she is in the thick of. She begins: "Socially my father was the bottom Cookstown could produce. He was the road sweeper's son.". She tells about her family, her girlhood, her schooling with the nuns and at college, her Catholicism, her political awakening in the student movement culminating in the bloody Londonderry march ("After that I walked into a pub literally shaking and swallowed one double whiskey neat without tasting it. So began my civil-rights commitment and my whiskey drinking."); the convention at which she was nominated for Parliament ("That first meeting was hilarious and scandalous and disgusting," she begins, and brings the scene alive); her triumphant entry into the House of Commons; her brief period as the pet of Westminster (before the Government and the British press discovered "the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament"); her days and nights on the barricades in August 1969 as the frustration of Northern Ireland's Catholics finally burst forth into active protest. Miss Devlin is not only one of the most extraordinary political figures of the day, she is also a brilliant writer. Her book is herself speaking - brave, smart, funny, tough, impassioned, full of Irish personality and a hundred percent free of blarney. It makes you understand exactly why Northern Ireland is in convulsion - and how it is that this young woman, raised in a small-town household just this side of poverty, has become a force to be reckoned with, able to rally and lead her disinherited countrymen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Date d'édition: 1969
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0233961968
• ISBN 13: 9780233961965
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible