Daryl Hendley Rooney talks about Gerald's depiction of the Irish across the sea in the Topographia Hibernica.

Gerald of Wales | Medieval History | Ireland

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Daryl Hendley Rooney uses the example of Gerald of Wales and his grandmother Nest to explore the close and shifting ties of aristocratic Welsh, Norman and Irish families across the Irish Sea.

Middle Ages | Ireland | Wales

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This is a recording of the interview conducted by Dr Maebh Harding with Margot Slattery as part of the 'ReCollecting the Irish Family: New Perspectives and Directions' event, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, where objects were collected in association with an

Marriage | Civil Partnership | Family

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This is a recording of the interview conducted by Dr Liz Kiely with Geoff McGrath as part of the 'ReCollecting the Irish Family: New Perspectives and Directions' event, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, where objects were collected in association with an inter

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This is a recording of the interview conducted by Dr Anne Byrne with Francis Timmons as part of the 'ReCollecting the Irish Family: New Perspectives and Directions' event, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, where objects were collected in association with an in

Family | Marriage | Love

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This is a recording of the interview conducted by Dr Anne Byrne with Cathal Kerrigan as part of the 'ReCollecting the Irish Family: New Perspectives and Directions' event, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ireland, where objects were collected in association with an in

Family | LGBTQ+

  Audio

Interviewer: John Quinn, Open Minds Program (Radio) Weekly show on Thursdays at 7:05 p.m. Spanned 25 years. Assets include: Original interview (26;08) , complete transcript of interview, breakdown of interview into sections on Change, Organisation, Obsolescence, Language, Embod

Cooley, Mike | Technology--Social aspects

  Mixed Types

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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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.

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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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

Abortion | Pro-choice movement | Reproductive rights

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Dr Elizabeth Edwards, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, outlines the excitement brought about by the technological advancement of travel by hot air balloon, and details the attempts to cross the Irish Sea in the early nineteenth centur

Wales | Crossing | Hot air balloons

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Dr Claire Nolan of University College Cork details the 'sense of communitas' depicted in the film At Water's Edge, which documents everyday life in the five ports on the Irish Sea.

Film mini-series | Irish Sea | Fishguard (Wales)

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Dr Martin Crampin, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, decribes the life of St Cybi, and the connections between Welsh and Irish saints through the centuries.

Saint Cybi | Holy Island (Wales) | Saints

  Audio

This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Evelyn Conlon about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Evelyn was an activist and member of Irishwomen United and the Contraception Action Programme. Evelyn discusses her involvement in the Rape Crisis C

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Anne Speed about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Anne was an activist and member of Irishwomen United and the Contraception Action Programme. In this interview Anne discusses Northern Ireland, class,

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Hilda Tweedy about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Hilda was an activist for women's rights and in consumer affairs. You can read here biography here: https://www.dib.ie/biography/tweedy-muriel-hilda-

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Anne O'Connor her their experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. The beginning of this audio, and therefore transcript, is missing. Anne was founder of the organisation AIM which lobbied for divorce and the right

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Máirín De Burca about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Máirín is an IRish writer, journalist and activist. In this interview Máirín discusses the anti-apartheid movement, the branching off of the women

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Dorothy (Doris) Molloy about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Dorris was a poet, journalist, artist and activist. In this interview Dorris discusses equal pay for equal work and equality in the workpla

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with May O'Brien about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. May is a trade union activist and human rights activist. May talks about growing up in a working class family. She discusses the Congress of Trade Uni

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Kathleen Maher about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Kathleen discusses community development and advocacy for the working class. She talks about class as an issue within the feminist movement in Dubl

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Róisín Conroy about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Róisín was an activist, publisher and founder of Attic Press. In this interview Róisín recalls her experience in the trade union labour movement. Sh

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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This is an audio and transcript of an interview with Eileen Proctor about her experience as part of the women's movement in Ireland. Eileen was founder of the National Association for Widows in Ireland. In this interview Eileen discusses community activism, social class, educatio

Feminism | Social movements | political campaigns

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Videos, photographs and audio from various Shred-it events. Includes videos created by various artists for the campaign. 10 files; AVI Cecily Brennan Original SHRED IT IE/NIVAL ACREA/EV/009/02/01 MP4 Cecily Brennan Shred It edit it for social media IE/NIVAL ACREA/EV/009/02

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Press materials related to the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment events and exhibition at EVA International 2018. 37 files; PDF Apollo Magazine 20180523 Gabrielle Schwarz ‘Power, Protest and Progress at this year’s EVA International’ IE/NIVAL ACREA/EV/008/04

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Audio recordings of audience interviews and reactions to the programme at the Day of Testimonies. 16 files; MP3 Darren Moynagh Compilation of Repeal the 8th interviews IE/NIVAL ACREA/EV/004/07/01 MP3 Fiona O’Brien Admiration for participants IE/NIVAL ACREA/EV/004/07/02 MP

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Documentation of performance COLONY. Performance presented by ANU Productions and Louise Lowe examined the female body as a political site in the eyes of church and state. Katie Honan, actor. Recorded by Fiona O'Brien. 9 files; MP4 Colony by ANU Video FOB 1 IE/NIVAL ACREA/E

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Documentation of performance 'Call to Action'. A Call to Action, composed by Alma Kelliher, was broadcasted from the roof of the Project Arts Centre and out onto to the streets of Temple Bar on the hour every hour between 11.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. 3 files; MP3 Alma Kelliher

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Press release, speakers notes, letters of support, statement, and list of first 240 signatories from the launch of the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment held at Buswell's Hotel, Dublin. 13 files; PDF Press Release IE/NIVAL ACREA/EV/001/02/01 WAV Audio of lau

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Green file folder containing 1 audio CD with 'Our Eyes' recording, 2 A5 pages with handwritten song lyrics, and 1 A4 page of song lyrics in red print Green file folder 35 cm x 23 cm Digital audio file included here. Physical items are held in NIVAL and can be consulted for

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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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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 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

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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 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

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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 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

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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

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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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