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T.K. Whitaker

Those We Lost

By Irish America Staff
February / March 2017

February 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Recent passings in Ireland and America. ℘℘℘ Elizabeth Flatley 1936 – 2017 Mother of celebrated Irish dancer Michael Flatley, Elizabeth “Eilish” Flatley died in January at in New Lenox, IL. She was 81. Her son has revealed that she herself was a “fantastic” Irish dancer who, he told the Chicago Sun-Times, supported him in a field often considered unmasculine by previous … [Read more...] about Those We Lost

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On this day in 1968, Bernadette Devlin was elected to Britain’s Parliament on the “Unity” ticket, as MP for the Mid-Ulster constituency. The election followed the death of Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster, George Forrest, and Devlin found she was running against Forrest’s widow on the Unionist ticket. At 21, Devlin was the youngest woman ever to be elected to Parliament. Raised Roman Catholic in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Devlin became passionately involved in politics while a student at Queen’s University Belfast. She helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party along with Seamus Costello in 1974.

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