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Show Literary highlights: Devlin's book: 'Not a work of art' learned from a record. On the last day of the competition, she had to have a police escort "to protect me from the people who would otherwise have given me a cuff on the ear for my impudence. My mother was delighted, she was some what embarrassed, but secretly sec-retly glad and proud that at least I had enough of my father in me to go somewhere I was hated and look people straight in the face." Catholic School something to help her people after she got out of the university. "I was perfectly aware of the injustices injus-tices in Northern Ireland's society, but I had sort of a consciously virtuous attitude to the whole problem: At least it would make no difference to me, personally, whether someone was a CathaCc or a Protestant. This impartiality wasn't difficult to achieve, or I never knew what my friend' religions reli-gions were, or whether thfey had any at all. I come from (a very strong Catholic background myself, my-self, but it was also strongly Christian, and it is the Christian element in my background that keeps me in the Catholic Church." 'The Price Of My Soul' is not 1 , Work of art, an autobiography d a political manifesto. Readers ho expect one or the other of these things will no doubt classify jl a failure. Let them. I'm not basically concerned with its suc-V suc-V financial or literary." , " have written this book in an tttempt to explain how the com-jla com-jla of economic, social, and polity poli-ty problems of Northern Ireland tow up the phenomenon of Bemadette Devlin." As part of the Contemporary toes class, Miss Devlin will appear ap-pear on campus Tuesday night ?t 1pm. in the Union Ballroom. If k speaks as interestingly as she writes, it should be a worthwhile tinning. She tells her story with aittosiasm wit, passion and con-cera. She went to a Catholic school, St. Patrick's Academy, where she was influenced by the vice-principal, Mother Benigus, who was a "fanatic about Irish culture." They weren't allowed to play net-ball net-ball with the protestant schools because that would have meant that they would have to stand for the National Anthem, and Mother Benignus wouldn't have that. Bernadette saw beyond the Reverend Rever-end Mother's bigotry towards the English and Protestants and says, "Although I have outgrown her politics, Mother Benignus will always al-ways have my admiration and affection, because she is the most truly charitable person I have known." Help Her People Like most "radicals" Miss Devlin Dev-lin went to a university with a vague idea that she would do Prison Term The story of how Bernadette Devlin became involved in the Civil Rights movement of Ireland, which led to her election to Parliament Parlia-ment and paradoxically to her temporary confinement in prison after riots in her homeland, is told in her own words in the last part of the book. It can be best summed up in a sentence taken from the forword to the book: " "The Price of My Soul' refers not to the price for which I would be prepared to sell out, but rather to the price we all must pay in life to preserve our own integrity." Bizarre society 'Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre aiety to study, I would suggest tome to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, a the middle of the 20th century, modern technology trans-Stng trans-Stng everybody's lives, you i( i medieval mentality that is ! lagged painfully into the 1 century by some forward-ng forward-ng people. Anyone who be-V be-V to the 20th century, policy poli-cy or in any other way, is a slutionary." I She Was Twelve i Jnadette was 12 when she to first political protest. 9 1 talent contest she recited militant poems she had ' ! I |