Becoming an Inspiring Woman
Earlier this week I received an invitation in the post. There is something lovely about getting paper post these days (that isn’t a bill!). The invitation was to participate in the ‘Seventy-Seven Women Commemoration Quilt’ project, designed to create a conversation between women living in Ireland today and women from 1916. Seventy-seven women activists were held in Richmond Barracks in Inchicore, Dublin after the 1916 Rising, and this project will tell their stories. Myself a
Women in 1916 & Ethical Commemoration
Women have literally been airbrushed out of Irish history. Their contributions have been silenced, and they have become invisible in the story of the formation of the Irish state. This was the conclusion of a group discussion on Women in 1916 at the recent Glencree Centre for Peace & Reconciliation conference on 1916 and the Ethics of Memory. The conference was focused on ethical commemoration and the need to include those alternative and silenced voices when remembering eve
