This is a (partial) timeline of the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. It details the legal cases, campaigning groups and events (with a focus on those opposed to the amendment), actions involving the medical community, tragedies, Irish General Ele
Constitutional Law - Irish - The Eighth Amendment | Abortion | Reproductive rights
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The interviewee is an Italian female migrant in her 30s. She talks about her experience of activism in Italy prior to becoming involved in pro-choice campaigning in Ireland with MERJ. She talks about her difficulties in finding a way to become close to the Abortion Rights Campaig
Anarchism | Abortion | reproductive rights
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The interviewee is a migrant who came to Ireland as a student about twelve years ago. She lives in the mid-east region of Ireland and became involved in the pro-choice campaign in 2016 as a result of the socio-political events unfolding in her home country, where a right-wing gov
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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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 a migrant from the US in her early 40s. She grew up mixed-race, in an environment where race and class politics have always been central to her experience of activism. She is very critical of other abortion campaign organisations as not being not sufficiently i
Anarchism | 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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The interviewee is a migrant. In Ireland she got involved in the Abortion Rights Campaign in a small town. She discusses the difficulties and dangers arising from conflict within small grassroots movements, and the challenges of mediating among people in conflict in the absence o
Non-hierarchical | Anarchism | Abortion
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The interviewee is an Irish female activist who was spurred into grassroots mobilization for choice following the Ms Y case. She joined the Abortion Rights Campaign (ARC) in 2014 and worked with the Abortion Rights Campaign’s regional groups as a representative for partnership an
Abortion | reproductive rights | Protest movements
Mixed Types
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
Mixed Types
The interviewee is a woman in her late 30s whose first involvement in politics was with the Abortion Rights Campaign in 2016, though she had been involved in NGOs before, and currently holds a position within the Abortion Rights Campaign. In the interview she spoke of her experie
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
Mixed Types
The interviewee is a young woman who was actively involved in grassroots groups that mobilised around liberalising access to the morning after pill, making the the abortion pill and care packages available, with the group Need Abortion Ireland and the Strike for Repeal action. Sh
Abortion | reproductive rights | Protest movements
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The interviewee is a midwife. She talks about being involved in various pro-choice groups set up by midwives and medical staff in general. She talks about tensions within some of the groups with which she engaged and her frustration with the scant attention paid to midwives' effo
Abortion | reproductive rights | Protest movements
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