Nell McCafferty ‘changed Ireland for the better and came from the Bogside to do that’
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00:00But by the end of the Germans, they actually changed the word.
00:04Many of them died.
00:06Many of them, like what you think,
00:08are heirs to the shepherd.
00:10These are the contrary.
00:13By then, it's not a German community.
00:15But now they've changed the word.
00:18And it hasn't been for now.
00:19APPLAUSE
00:27And in the course of that,
00:29we've seen in France,
00:31as many women, I say, alive.
00:33LAUGHTER
00:37Because they had never seen or heard of it.
00:40It hasn't been a fight.
00:42In the last hundred years,
00:45for women's rights,
00:47for women's rights to pay,
00:49for women's rights to have a job,
00:51if we think about how these personalities have been
00:54over the last hundred years,
00:56who has made the biggest contribution?
00:59Now we're talking about it.
01:01Now we're talking about it.
01:03Change that word.
01:04Change that word for the better.
01:06It's a gift from the bottom side to do that.
01:09APPLAUSE
01:17Somebody once described her,
01:19an Irish markswoman,
01:21described her as the first lady of Paris.
01:25And I said, OK, that guy's a bit lucky.
01:29LAUGHTER
01:32But she...
01:34When they took her back,
01:37it was a cool lady.
01:38It's not the sort I heard at all.
01:40Having a car, you know,
01:42you can colour a car now.
01:44And the day they took her here,
01:46she never must have been in this.
01:48Had never been in it.
01:50A bad day for her.
01:52I remember when I was taking this.
01:54You know, she was driving as we were all supposed to be here.
01:56So lucky to come from that particular patch of land.
01:59She was always on the side of the dungeon.
02:03And she was always on the side of the outlaws.
02:06That's where she was most comfortable.
02:08With the outlaws.
02:09Nobody can leave the man.
02:12Look down at the centre.
02:13Not unfortunately,
02:14not because of the personal commitment to Mel
02:16or anybody else.
02:18We can see empowerment is a different and better
02:21explanation for the fact that Mel
02:23can't keep those tickets.
02:25APPLAUSE
02:28Because it does, at last,
02:30get the recognition she deserves.
02:32And sure, it's not a new view of empowerment,
02:34that we leave our good heroes and heroines,
02:37but after we have died,
02:39we go and stand up and say
02:41what has been in our hearts the whole time.
02:44On the evening of Sunday,
02:47they bid me to be Sunday.
02:50When we were all supposed to be here,
02:52Mel went away and wrote an article
02:54about not being Sunday.
02:56They never questioned it.
02:58They called it Smoke and Fear for Boston Street.
03:01And do you know, this article,
03:03in a little publication,
03:05which doesn't exist anymore,
03:08a few of us were involved in producing it,
03:10but we'll leave it for a week from now,
03:12unless we get just ordinary people
03:14from around the area.
03:16Her article was entitled,
03:18in a settling,
03:20There Will Be Another Day.
03:22She began,
03:23Bloody Sunday
03:25was a fine day
03:27and a foul day.
03:29It was a fine day to walk down South Bay,
03:32singing our songs,
03:34carrying our banners.
03:36Thousands of us,
03:38singing.
03:39To pick up thousands more of our comrades,
03:41singing, at the flag we were.
03:44And then to swell through the bog state
03:47where it all began 40 years ago.
03:50Do you remember?
03:52We asked them to ban the corporation,
03:55but they said no,
03:56and then they did it.
03:58We demanded fair distribution of housing,
04:00but they said no,
04:02and then they did it.
04:04We demanded a home secondary resettlement,
04:07but they said no,
04:09and then they did it.
04:11We told the police to leave the bog state,
04:13but they said no,
04:15rubbing all the way back to the barricades.
04:18And when sounds of any kind
04:20hit the wooden street,
04:22paying the price of a dog,
04:24we thought it more that we could bear it,
04:26if we did.
04:28Death was a stranger to our family.
04:32Death is no stranger to us now.
04:35A bloody price to pay,
04:38and no easier to bear.
04:40No one who has died
04:42is a stranger to us.
04:46What impossible things did we ask ourselves
04:49to be a foreign democracy
04:51in the society around us.
04:54The least of our people,
04:57and the best.
04:59Thirteen men were murdered last week.
05:02Let it be said of them that great,
05:04that the days of retreat
05:06are nothing of ease.
05:08Let it not be said of us
05:11that we die in vain.
05:13Stay free,
05:15coalition sisters,
05:16there will be another day.
05:18Absolutely,
05:19there will be another day,
05:21but there will never be another
05:23American America.
06:01I will never leave you,
06:04I will never leave you,
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