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Angela Davis and the women’s movement of Northern Ireland
LYNDA WALKER remembers the legendary US civil rights activist’s two visits to Belfast, in 1994 and 2017
Angela Davis (right) and Lynda Walker of the Communist Party of Ireland, pictured in 2017

WHEN Angela Davis addressed a group of over 700 people in the Whitla Hall at Belfast Queen’s University in 2017, I was immensely proud. This was her second visit to Belfast, her first being in 1994. 

She told the audience how she received that invitation when she met women from Ireland in Moscow at the World Congress of Women.

In 1987 a delegation of 42 women from the length and breadth of Ireland went to Moscow — trade unionists, community activists, communists, all were thrilled to meet Angela. 

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