&lt;div class=&quot;track&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; src=&quot;http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/29156?ns=guardian&amp;pageName=A+new+film+asks+%27where+is+Bernadette+Devlin%3F%27%3AArticle%3A1648170&amp;ch=Life+and+style&amp;c3=Guardian&amp;c4=Women+and+women%27s+interests%2CLife+and+style%2CFilm%2CLondon+film+festival%2CLondon+film+festival+2011%2CCulture&amp;c5=Unclassified%2CNot+commercially+useful%2CWomen&amp;c6=Maggie+O%27Kane&amp;c7=11-Oct-15&amp;c8=1648170&amp;c9=Article&amp;c10=Blogpost%2CFeature&amp;c11=Life+and+style&amp;c13=&amp;c25=Women%27s+blog+with+Jane+Martinson&amp;c30=content&amp;h2=GU%2FLife+and+style%2FWomen&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;standfirst&quot;&gt;Notes on a Political Journey, which has been shortlisted for the Grierson award, revisits the life of an extraordinary and uncompromising woman&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She survived an assassination attempt, but Bernadette Devlin is best remembered as the 21-year-old Irish republican from Ulster who, in 1972, strode across the floor of the House of Commons to punch Reginald &shy;Maudling, home secretary of the Conservative &shy;government. His grave mistake had been to suggest that the &shy;British army had fired only in &shy;self-&shy;defence on Bloody Sunday when they shot dead 13 civil rights &shy;protesters. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now 64, a new &shy;documentary, Bernadette: Notes on a &shy;Political Journey &shy;revisits the life of a woman who still holds the record as Britain&#039;s youngest elected female MP. The documentary, which took almost 10 years to make, is about political passion, &shy;courage and commitment from two women who still spark with both. Devlin today works in a cross &shy;community organisation that advocates for&shy; &shy;immigrants, the disabled, and other minority or marginalised groups. Filmmaker and c&shy;ampaigner Lelia Doolan, 77, funded the project &shy;herself for the first seven years while &shy;fellow &shy;film-makers also gave some services for free. Now the winner of the best &shy;documentary at the Galway film festival, it has been shortlisted for the &shy;prestigious &shy;Grierson award in London.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Doolan says that she made the film because she saw Devlin&#039;s role as a human rights campaigner and as a radical &shy;feminist being wiped from Irish history: &quot;She had been at the heart of the civil rights movement and republican socialism from the beginning &ndash; but when it came to the peace process and I saw Bono sending Hume and Trimble, I thought, where is &shy;Bernadette? So we had a concert for her in Galway in 1998 and I asked her if she would be &shy;agreeable to a documentary, not about her private life but about her ideas, and she agreed.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Rebellious, awkward and &shy;contrary&quot; is how Devlin was once described. Those who know &shy;Doolan talk of an extraordinary, but also uncompromising woman. The two achievements of the &shy;documentary, says  Doolan, are: &quot;We got it made and that it might give people courage.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&bull; Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/1634&quot;&gt;will be shown at BFI Southbank&lt;/a&gt; as part of the London film festival on 15, 16 and 17 October 2011&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;related&quot; style=&quot;float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/women&quot;&gt;Women&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/londonfilmfestival&quot;&gt;London film festival&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/london-film-festival-2011&quot;&gt;London film festival 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;author&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/maggieokane&quot;&gt;Maggie O&#039;Kane&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;terms&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk&quot;&gt;guardian.co.uk&lt;/a&gt; &amp;copy; 2011 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our &lt;a href=&quot;http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html&quot;&gt;Terms &amp; Conditions&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds&quot;&gt;More Feeds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;clear:both&quot; /&gt;