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 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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Interviewee is a man in his 30s, whose first involvement in politics was through the Abortion Rights Campaign, and then Together For Yes. In the interview, he spoke of the importance of the Abortion Rights Campaign’s non-hierarchical organising and the difficulties of doing colla
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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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
Mixed Types
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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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 an older man who now lives in a rural town in the North West. His wife became seriously ill during a pregnancy in the early eighties, treatment was withheld until delivery, the baby died and the marriage broke up. Remarrying later he has daughters. These experi
Non-hierarchical | Abortion | reproductive rights
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