In the tenth episode of How the Yes was Won, the podcast shares a collection of stories heard during the interviews that the producers wished to air, but that just did not fit in any other episode. Guests include Mary Ryder, Anne Connolly, Mary Gordon, Ursula Barry and Catherine
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In the ninth episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast discusses the day of the referendum on 25 May 2018. The Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act is also discussed, and its shortcomings highlighted. Guests include Anne Connolly, Alison Spillane, Anita Byrne, Ca
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In the eighth episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast explores formation of Together For Yes, the national campaign to organise for a Yes vote in the referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment. The episode interviews activists involved in the campaign, from the head office to
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In the seventh episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast covers the growing campaign to demand a referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment from 2012 onwards, and some of the changes in Irish society that were happening around the same time. Guests include Sarah Monaghan, Anita
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In the sixth episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast explores the death of Savita Halappanavar in October 2012 after being refused an abortion in University Hospital Galway, and other stories of medical crises caused by the Eighth Amendment, including the Ms Y and Ms P cases.
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In the fifth episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast explores the renewed calls for legislation on the X case that gained momentum from 2012 onwards, triggered in part by a poster campaign by anti-abortion organisation Youth Defence. The episode also discusses the A,B and C c
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In the fourth episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast covers the X Case, the first real challenge to the 8th Amendment. The X Case led to widespread public demonstrations, and culminated in the public voting in three additional referendums to increase access to abortion, and
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In the third episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast looks at how the Eighth Amendment operated in Ireland after 1983, particularly the cases brought by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) against individuals and organisations providing information out ab
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In the second episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast interviews activists and organisers who mobilised as part of the Anti-Amendment Campaign, against the introduction of the Eighth Amendment in 1983. Guests include Mary Gordon, Mary Ryder, Dr Ursula Barry, Eddie Conlon and
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In the first episode of How The Yes Was Won, the podcast gives context to the introduction of the 8th Amendment by exploring the history of Irish feminism in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the backlash from it. Guests include Anne Connolly, Mary Gordon, Dr Ursula Barry, with
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“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” ― Rudyard Kipling. I love visiting Museums. You’ll always hear Writers and Storytellers say that stories, in whatever form, bind us and that we can only really learn how to evolve through our col
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