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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Battle of the Bogsid, When the Police Were Not a Cause of the Problems

When i was elected in 19 69, i'm not even from derry, but it's just a big part of me. The police weren't keeping two sectarian sines apart. And so by august 60 ninth, whenever the whole parades were on, people were genuinely terrified of what would happen if the police came back in again. So i got sent to america. Get her out. O get her out. You could see what they were doing. But putting the army in here was actually going to make this worse. I just think if you think hard enough, you can see what's coming.

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