Éilís grew up in the west of Ireland. For the early years of campaigning she was living in Dublin. In her interview she speaks about her experience of moving to a rural area in the west where she assisted in setting up a branch of the Abortion Rights Campaign. She talks about her
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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The interviewee is from the west of Ireland. She talks about her prominent role in the Abortion Rights Campaign and Together For Yes as a graphic designer, and later as a media and communication person. She discusses the notion of trust as it applied to the process of building ne
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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Interviewee is a Dublin-based woman in her 20s, whose parents were trade unionists. Her prior involvement in politics was attending demos and she became active around the 2012 Youth Defence posters, working in a central capacity in the Abortion Rights Campaign and then in Togethe
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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The interviewee is a woman in her mid-thirties. During her third pregnancy, her foetus was diagnosed with a fatal foetal syndrome. Due to financial constraints, she was unable to travel abroad for termination. In this interview she talks about her experience of having no other op
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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The interviewee is from the west of Ireland and was a member of the Abortion Rights Campaign. She talks about the importance of having clear objectives within a campaign and a functioning structure that can remain faithful to the aims of the campaign without alienating part of th
Non-hierarchical | Anarchism | Abortion
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The interviewee is in her thirties and lives in Dublin. She grew up on a farm in the south of Ireland and spoke of her first political activity in terms of involvement in a peace and justice group in her school. As a university student in Dublin, she became politically active an
Non-hierarchical | Anarchism | Abortion
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Interviewee is an older woman. Her early childhood was spent in London, the child of Irish emigrants who worked in public transport. They returned to Ireland when she was in her pre-teens to a rural area. She spoke of the liberalising impact of emigration and her experience of tr
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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The interviewee is a woman in her 30s who was involved in anarchism in the early 2000s. She was a founding member of RAG (Revolutionary Anarcha-Feminist Group) and the Abortion Rights Campaign, and during the campaign was involved in Parents for Choice. During the interview she t
Non-hierarchical | Anarchism | Abortion
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The interviewee was born in New Zealand, leaving it to work in London first and arriving in Ireland in 1997. He spoke of his first involvement in political activism in New Zealand via protests against the 1981 South African Rugby tour. Later he was involved in Defend the Clinics
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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The interview lives in a city in the south of Ireland. She spoke about growing up in a religious family and religious country. As a teenager, at a time of poor health, she joined a religious anti-abortion organisation. She became involved in pro-choice activism in 2014/15. She ta
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Interviewee is a woman in her late thirties who was centrally involved in the Abortion Rights Campaign from the beginning. Her interview discussed the centrality of pre-existing networks to forming the Abortion Rights Campaign, the importance of strategic thinking in the work of
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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