A History of the Irish Abortion Debate
This chapter traces the history of elisions, euphemisms and silences that have characterised the Irish abortion debate historically. It opens by considering an extremely vocal, confessional contemporary incident involving two women who live-tweeted each s
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Abortion and Ireland
David Ralph
Abortion and Ireland How the 8th Was Overthrown
David Ralph Department of Sociology Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland
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In memory of James Reid
Acknowledgements
The largest debt of gratitude is owed to each and every one of the women storytellers who courageously spoke out about their abortion histories in an effort to have the Eighth Amendment removed from the Irish Constitution. That Amendment was a regressive, misogynistic article inserted into the foundational document of the Irish State, and every Irish citizen alive now and in the future is better off that it is gone. Good riddance. I would like to thank my colleagues in the Sociology Department at Trinity College Dublin. They provided useful feedback on some of the early ideas contained herein. I would also like to thank Mary Gilmartin and Jane Gray at Maynooth University for talking through the project with me. I am grateful too to Lynn Staeheli for her ongoing guidance and support of my academic work. Thanks are also due to several friends whose good company and occasional wise words made the last year bearable. I’m thinking here of Killian Foley, Jules Hackett, Paddy Cahill, Paddy O’ Dea, Mick Quinn, John Kerrigan, Irial Glynn, Jane O’ Sullivan and James Hanrahan. I’m also thinking of Tony Tracy, Anne Reid, Luke Daly, Keith Elliot, Sarah O’ Brien, Dann
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