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, on the Sunday evening before the referendum vote, a middle-aged man exits a pub and...
Whether he meant to or not, presidential candidate Peter Casey should not be forgiven for the racial hate he stirred up in the bloodpot of human hearts, writes Donal O’Keeffe.
A retired public servant said to me: “D’you know something, I’d...
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 home’s infant mortality rate suggests Deeny’s intervention saved literally hundreds of children’s lives, writes Donal...
Former Garda Majella Moynihan – who says she is the only person in the world to be charged with giving birth - talks with Donal O’Keeffe about feeling pressured into giving up her baby, about the book she has...
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 to women only two weeks ago and nobody wants to listen to a broken record.
No,...
“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 of Edwd. and Maria Jennings, 39th Regt, who died Jan 31st 1869 aged 2.”, writes...
“They took my hair, they took my human rights, they took my clothes, they took my name, but they never took my spirit” - Mary Merritt
Mary Merritt was born in 1931 to a single mother in a Dublin workhouse....
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, Lavinia Kerwick, is someone who has already changed Ireland
for the better.
I’m humbled that
Lavinia Kerwick reads...
“No one may dare alter the truths of the Holocaust, no matter how noble his motives.” By Donal O’Keeffe.
Boy did John Boyne get his answer.
On Twitter earlier this month, the Irish author most famous for his schmaltzy 2006 international...
Sheila was 19 when she was imprisoned in 1976 for the crime of 'falling pregnant'. She was enslaved and subjected to appalling cruelty, and her baby was stolen. Had not her Daddy rescued her from the prison to which...
