Lavinia Kerwick – still changing Ireland for the better
Last
month Taoiseach Micheál Martin committed to addressing a spate of sexual
assaults against homeless people on the streets of Cork. The woman who secured
that commitment,...
Good riddance to Peter Casey, Ireland’s Micro-Trump
Whether he meant to or not, presidential candidate Peter Casey should not be forgiven for the racial hate he stirred up in the bloodpot...
Yes 66.4%
Under the green gaze of John Mandeville, a red-faced man roars at a pregnant woman that she is a murderer.
In the Square in Mitchelstown,...
James Deeny: The doctor who saved hundreds of Bessborough babies’ lives
Dr James Deeny defied Church and State in 1940s Ireland to temporarily close Cork’s Bessborough mother and baby home. The subsequent drop in the...
Majella Moynihan: “I was torn apart by misogynist bastards within An...
Former Garda Majella Moynihan – who says she is the only person in the world to be charged with giving birth - talks with...
Walking through Fermoy, the past is far away and yet very...
“Emily Helena (indecipherable) Daughter. But O for the touch of a vanish’d hand.”
Another small gravestone still reads “Sacred to the memory of Jane, daughter...
Laundering the Magdalene Past
“They took my hair, they took my human rights, they took my clothes, they took my name, but they never took my spirit” -...
The anti-choice argument is lost. Hence the dirty tricks
I swore I wasn’t going to write about the Eighth Amendment this week. I wrote about the historical context of Ireland’s utterly dysfunctional attitude...
Listen to Bob Dylan’s Granny: Everyone you’ll ever meet is fighting...
This world can be a cruel and lonesome place sometimes, writes Donal O’Keeffe. Maybe there are worse things we might try than kindness now...
The Night The Stars Fell
November 1833. As the night skies explode in blazing light over America’s Deep South, the slavers on one plantation – terrified of the end...
