The Pope named her with Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Thomas Merton as four great Americans. Continue reading
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Elizabeth Sharkey, Domestic Abuse Refuser
The seventh in Tinteán‘s Famine Orphan Girls Series by a descendant, Chrissy Fletcher. Elizabeth Sharkey is my grandmother’s grandmother, through an all-female line. I like to imagine this line as a fine gold thread coming from my heart and connecting me from mother to mother, spanning the oceans and the centuries back to a … Continue reading
Celebrating Irish Feminism
A fascinating history of how feminism and nationalism converged to challenge traditional gender binaries at some key points in modern Irish history Continue reading
From the Papers
Porridge, RTE, the Travellers … Continue reading
ISAANZ 24 conference, 2019 Foregrounding Irish Women
Papers will range from Irish orphan stories, Mary Lee, women in the 1916 Rising and conscription, Irish nuns and identity, chain migration, women in World War 1, through to the 20th century ‘Troubles’ and abortion reform and neonatal deaths. Continue reading
From the Papers
She decided where her daughter should go to school. She did not tell the child’s father. Continue reading
A Woman Ahead of Her Time
It is easy today to forget the extreme ways that nineteenth-century British society divided along sectarian lines. Continue reading
The ‘Best Choir in the Anglosphere’
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a convict’s wife, conductor of the first choir of an infant colony. Continue reading
Feminists before First Wave
This book on Nano Nagle and her legacy casts a powerful gaze on the lives and culture of a body of nuns whose charism was particularly and importantly focused on girls Continue reading
Eureka’s Children Dinner and Awards Night
Eureka’s Children’s annual Eureka Democracy Award Dinner Continue reading
