Anne Devlin

Biography

Anne Devlin is a writer. She is part of a generation who experienced early activism for civil rights.

As a school girl member of the People's Democracy she abandoned street politics after 12 months, in the face of rising violence to attend the University of Ulster at Coleraine. She has written about the core year 1968 in many forms, in her short story Naming The Names, and her stage play After Easter.

Her breakthrough stage play Ourselves Alone charted women's involvement in the republican movement. In the 90's she worked in film and tv on The Venus de Milo Instead and Titanic Town which brought her home regularly. From a political family, her late father Paddy Devlin willed her an attachment to the Labour movement and a deep respect for Trade Unionism. An early feminist she is motivated to ensuring that women's stories do not fall into oblivion.