Sinéad Kennedy, Author at Public Seminar

An excerpt of Repealed: Ireland’s Unfinished Fight for Reproductive Rights

Abortion became illegal in Ireland in 1861 as part of the United Kingdom and Great Britain’s Offences Against the Person Act. But while abortion might not have been talked about much in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was happening. ...

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Ireland’s Victory for Marriage Equality

The birth of a new political imagination?

June 18, 2015 • by Sinéad Kennedy

The Irish electorate’s recent resounding “yes” to the question of marriage equality for LGBT people (62% of the electorate, approximately 1.2 million, voted in favour the proposal) briefly turned the international spotlight on Ireland for reasons other than its imploding economic and banking system. Ireland is ...