Director: Lelia Doolan
Ireland 2011
87 minutes
Cert: Club
 

 

Lelia Doolan will introduce this film.

Winner of the Best Feature Documentary prize the Galway Film Fleadh 2011, Lelia Doolan’s account of the tumultuous political career of Northern Irish activist and ‘speechifier’ Bernadette Devlin McAliskey atmospherically conveys the complex and volatile environment, both personal and political, in which she rose to power.

Interview with Lelia Doolan

www.bfi.org.uk/live/video/780