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Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

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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.

Source: The Price of My Soul, ch. 4, 1969.
-- Bernadette Devlin, (Apr 23 1947-____), Irish politician; She was elected as the youngest member of the British House of Commons, 1969-1974; founding member of Irish Republican Socialist Party, 1975.


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