I accidentally deleted the first post. My mother was a civil rights activist in the US who became interested in the plight of Catholics in Northern Ireland even though she wasn’t Irish or Catholic. She became friends with the midUlster MP in the early 70s and would host them when they visited NYC.

She has interesting photos of her visits to her friend in Derry but these pins were probably bought in the US.

by PsychologicalBend458

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  2. Bernadette Devlin / McAliskey might have been the MP your mother knew?

    A formidable woman whose interest in liberation extended (extends still I’m sure) beyond NI, she didn’t mind upsetting racist Irish Americans.

    I think the badges would be mostly from the early 80s

  3. Supporter of IRA terrorism was she? Bet she wasn’t as fond of terrorists after 9/11.

  6. Was this the 70’s equivalent of hanging flegs halfway up lampposts

  7. They look unworn going by the lack of visible wear or sun fade .

    Buttons are usually given as a ty or keepsake after donating or helping to elicit donations for the particular thing in question.

    Looks like she packed them away shortly after receiving them into some sort of memento or trinket box for posterity.

  9. smuggled many pieces of political art to the u.s in the early 8os thru to the 90s from prisoners of all design. i also met assata shakur somewhere else, around that time. one of my pals designed one of those badges. it comes out of boston.

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