ABSTRACT
Despite claiming to be an objective insight that would free [her from] the stereotype imprisoned by headlines, the book reads like a collection of news or media stories about her and makes no attempt to assess the author's role, achievements, or significance in Northern Irish affairs. The march was particularly controversial as it proposed going through areas that were deemed unionist or loyalist. But as the public relations work of Terence O'Neill began to affect public opinion, they came to be considered militants. John Kirkaldy argues that nothing illustrates the British press's anti-Irish perceptions so much as their treatment of Bernadette Devlin. Eilish Rooney suggests that seeing the Northern political conflict through a gender lens would bring into focus the ways that the activism of thousands of women has shaped the political situation and would offer very different readings and understandings of the conflict.
