Prior to a by-election in Mid Ulster 21-year old student Bernadette Devlin speaks in Draperstown County Derry.
Bernadette Devlin of Independent Unity was running against Anna Forrest of the Unionist Party, who was the widow of former MP George Forrest. It was a period of unrest in Northern Ireland, which had seen increasingly violent civil rights protests and a general election over the past year.
Addressing her supporters Bernadette Devlin argues that both Catholics and Protestants need to stand together against the oppressor.
It is time that we stood up now and demanded the kind of society to which we, the people of this country, have a right.
Devlin would go on to win the by-election becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster.
An RTÉ News report broadcast 16 April 1969.
