tag: ireland (feimineach)

#research: medical abortions online safe and effective

May 17, 2017

[Though still illegal for the women of Ireland.] A study into women who seek abortion pills online in the face of strict laws against terminations has found that almost 95% safely ended their pregnancy without surgical intervention. Experts say the study underscores the safety of medical abortion, and highlights that women who go on to experience symptoms of possible complications […]

#womenslives: Irish women relieved and grateful after using abortion pills

May 17, 2017

[Only regret is that they are illegal. NB. Packages are STOPPED going into the Rep. of Ireland.] Women in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland who have obtained abortion pills online in defiance of the law overwhelmingly express gratitude and relief that they were able to end an unwanted pregnancy, a new study shows. Their only regret, according to […]

#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Grace O’Malley, c. 1530 – c. 1603 Grace, or Gráinne

February 27, 2017

me. my name. #Repost @weirdwonderfulwomen・・・Grace O’Malley, c. 1530 – c. 1603Grace, or Gráinne, was born in County Mayo in Ireland around 1530. Her father was a wealthy merchant and the chieftain of the Ó Máille clan. As a child she was determined to accompany her father at sea but her mother believed Grace’s long hair would become tangled in the […]

#vivelafeminism: Irish women are going on strike to #protest the abortion ban (8th March) #repealthe8th

January 26, 2017

Women in Ireland are going on strike to protest the country’s abortion ban. Pro-choice women will refuse to attend work on 8 March, as part of direct action to make the government pay attention to growing frustration over lack of reproductive rights. It is a criminal offence to have an abortion in the Republic of Ireland, where women face up […]

#saturdaysatire: poll: what are we going to do with these women, at all, at all?

December 17, 2016

The women in this country, honestly, what are we going to do with them? If they’re not giving out about bodily autonomy, they’re complaining about wage equality or something like that. Don’t they have enough? When will they quit whining and giving out? It’s like they got the vote in 1918 and then just kept nagging and nagging, wanting more […]

#womenslives: “I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home…”

November 29, 2016

I am a young woman who is told to walk the long way home in order to avoid dark streets or alleys. I am a young woman who once mentioned the need for consent to be taught in schools, and was told that consent was a grey area, as if consent isn’t already a very low bar, and maybe it […]

#womensstories: Girl power: four Irish women and what feminism means to them

August 12, 2016

Girl power etc. (Irish Examiner) #womenstories from Ireland. The first excerpt is from Louise O’Neill. Tara Flynn, Andrea Horan, and Sarah Maria Griffin also contribute. (Aside: have you ever seen a list of such Irish names in one place?) “This was particularly true when it came to sexual agency. The teenage girls I knew who were exploring their sexuality were […]

#afeministtakeon: rebellion – @lip_mag

July 25, 2016

It’s on the list. Rosie Hunt on lipmag: Rebellion is a historical drama that puts women at the centre of the action. The five-part mini series premiered earlier this year, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, and is still available on Netflix for subscribers to binge-watch at their leisure. The series begins in 1914, […]

#vivelafeminism: “Feminism has certainly undermined men,” she continues

April 1, 2016

Both men and women may have suffered as feminism has evolved, she reflects. “Feminism has made us all go out to work and made us earn a living, and the male wage is no longer, because of feminism, able to support a family, so women have to work, which is very tiring. “Because we stuck up for freedom, freedom had […]

#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell left 15 Moore Street in Dublin

March 27, 2016

Fantastic piece. NYtimes (emphasis added): AROUND 12:45 p.m. on April 29, 1916, Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell left 15 Moore Street in Dublin to deliver the surrender message that would end the Easter Rising. Inside the house, where the division of Irish rebels under the command of Padraig Pearse had retreated, her comrades in arms watched her walk away through the bullet-riddled […]

#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Why, 100 years after the Easter Rising, are Irish women still fighting?

March 27, 2016

On the gap between what was promised for women in the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and what emerged then in the Constitution of Ireland. On the guardian (emphasis added). So what happened to the promise of equality in the Proclamation of the Irish Republic read out on Easter Monday 1916 by the poet and rebel leader Patrick Pearse, and […]

#womensstories: Abused in the past and abandoned in the present – a Magdalene Laundries survivor

March 25, 2016

She remains anonymous by choice. She values her privacy above all. She lives alone and never married. She attends daily Mass. She will never again live in Ireland. She celebrated her 78th birthday recently. She is a survivor of the Magdalene laundries. Her mother died when she was seven. At 14, her father remarried but she and a younger sister […]

#todayin: fighting back: Women are being kept out of Irish theatre

March 22, 2016

#todayin: fighting back: Women are being kept out of Irish theatre and a group of artists is fighting back (Such a good point about women’s voices and women speaking at all.) From msmagazine: Comedian and writer Maeve Higgins had some strong words for her native Ireland during a recent symposium in New York: “[It’s] a wet little rock full of […]

#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Mairéad Farrell, on “dirty protest” at Armagh jail in 1980

December 28, 2015

Mairéad Farrell, on “dirty protest” at Armagh jail in 1980. Armagh women’s prison protests promoted feminism within the republican movement and challenged sexist attitudes, but women’s issues were not a priority for Sinn Fein. From the Irish Times: Second-class republicans? Sinn Féin, feminism and the women’s hunger strike Hunger striking as a feminist issue Nell McCafferty, the Irish feminist writer, […]

#womensstories: ‘I had to wait for my baby to die inside me’ (Ireland)

November 26, 2015

A woman has spoken for the first time about the “five weeks of torture” she went through while waiting for her unborn baby to die because of Ireland’s abortion laws.Claire Cullen-Delsol, 31, a mother of two from Waterford city, had to wait over a month for her daughter’s heartbeat to stop naturallyA woman has spoken for the first time about […]

#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Irish suffragettes at war

November 18, 2015

Piece on the Irish Times: In the autumn of 1915 the workrooms and shop on Dublin’s Eden Quay where Rosie Hackett and her workmates had sewn and sold shirts and badges for over a year was reorganised. Their union official, Delia Larkin, founding secretary of the Irish Women Workers’ Union and manager of the Irish Women Workers’ Co-operative Society had […]

#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Bridget O’Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger, was interviewed by The Illustrated London News in 1849

November 9, 2015

Bridget O’Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger, was interviewed by The Illustrated London News in 1849. The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hunger.Used frequently to accompany books, articles, and exhibitions about An Gorta Mor, the mother and her children have become symbols for the thousands of mothers and children who suffered […]

#womensstories: Bridget O’Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger

November 8, 2015

Bridget O’Donnel, a victim of Ireland’s Great Hunger, was interviewed by The Illustrated London News in 1849. The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hunger. Used frequently to accompany books, articles, and exhibitions about An Gorta Mor, the mother and her children have become symbols for the thousands of mothers and children who […]

#saturdaysatire: Report Confirms Drop In Number Of Women Being Left On The Shelf

October 10, 2015

NEW figures released today show a significant drop in the amount of women being left on the shelf, with many experts suggesting that if trend continues, the shelf may be completely empty by 2020. The numbers are in stark contrast to those from before the turn of the century, where the shelf was found to be teeming with singletons, spinsters, […]

#saturdaysatire: Heartwarming Moment 78-Year-Old Celibate Man Forgives Women He’s Never Met

September 12, 2015

God bless him (pun totally intended and make no mistake). THIS 78-Year-Old man totally won the internet yesterday with this amazing gesture. Get the tissues ready, it’s a tearjerker. This celibate man named Pope Francis, somehow found the empathy to declare that he wouldn’t want to condemn women he’s never met to a hellish inferno for all eternity even though […]

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