Anne Devlin (writer)

[2] She is the daughter of Paddy Devlin, a Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and later a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

In January 1969, while a student at the New University of Ulster, Devlin joined a civil rights march from Belfast to Derry, organised by the People's Democracy.

At Burntollet Bridge, a few miles from Derry, the march was attacked by loyalists.

Devlin was struck on the head, knocked unconscious, fell into the river, and was brought to hospital suffering from concussion.

[3] At university, Devlin was briefly associated with the Coleraine Cluster of poets and writers before leaving Northern Ireland to work as a teacher in Germany.