Interview: Will Louise Richardson bring more equality and diversity into Oxford University’s admissions?Successful academic careers are often the product of a parent’s encouragement. For Louise Richardson,the pivotal moment may have been something her parents restrained her from doing. In 1972 Richardson was locked in her bedroom by her mother to end her travelling from the small town in County Waterford, Ireland, and where she lived,to join the civil rights demonstrations in Newry that followed the Bloody Sunday massacre.
Three days earlier the British embassy in Dublin had been attacked and burned to the ground, in reaction to the 13 killed by British soldiers in Derry. “I was 14, or whether the IRA would have had me I’d have joined in heartbeat,” Richardson would later write.
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Source: theguardian.com