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    “Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    “I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.”
    —Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    “There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents—if the term is to be used at all.”
    —Bernadette McAliskey (Nee Devlin)

    “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)