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Director
Lelia Doolan
Credits
Producer: Lelia Doolan
Category
Documentary
This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties. Combining archive footage with a series of intimate interviews conducted with Devlin McAliskey, director Lelia Doolan perfectly encapsulates the idiosyncrasies and rebelliousness which has fuelled her subject’s pivotal role at the heart of civil rights, feminism and socialism in Northern Ireland. Bernadette is a fascinating and powerful account of this firebrand figure, an impressively rounded depiction of a woman blessed with incredible eloquence, clarity and firm socialist principles.
Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn.
88 minutes, Ireland, 2011, Colour/B&W
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MCGAHERN: SHORT STORIES (DOUBLE BILL) 13:10
EAT / SLEEP / CHEER / REPEAT 13.30, 18.00
HOARD 15.10, 20.10
LA CHIMERA 13:15, 20:30
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 18:30
ROME, OPEN CITY 11:00
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11:00, 16:00, 20:45
TIGER STRIPES 11:00, 18:20
WORLD CINEMA PROJECT: THE STRANGER AND THE FOG 15.30
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council