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
Mixed Types
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
Mixed Types
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
Mixed Types
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 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
Mixed Types
The interviewee is in her 30s and comes from a rural area of Ireland. She was very active in organising various groups during her adolescence, and became prominent in mobilising people into ecology and social justice movements when she started college and afterwards. She started
Non-hierarchical | Anarchism | Abortion
Mixed Types
The interviewee is an Irish woman who became involved in abortion rights campaigning while living in England in the late ‘70s. On her return to Ireland, in the mid-80s, she was one of the founding members of a pro-choice group in Derry, through which she advocated for abortion ri
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
Mixed Types
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
Mixed Types
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
Mixed Types
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
Mixed Types