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The Irish Women's Liberation Movement held their meetings in Gaj's restaurant on Baggot Street every Monday. Gaj's restaurant was owned by Margaret Gaj who was a feminist socialist activist. [6] [7] It was initially started with twelve women, most of whom were journalists. [8] One of the co-founders was June Levine. [citation needed]
The pioneer of the women's movement on Ireland was Anna Haslam, who in 1876 founded the pioneering Dublin Women's Suffrage Association (DSWA), which campaigned for a greater role for women in local government and public affairs, aside from being the first women's suffrage society (after the Irish Women's Suffrage Society by Isabella Tod in 1872 ...
A Dublin-bound train preparing for departure from Belfast in May 1971. The Contraceptive Train was a women's rights activism event which took place on 22 May 1971. [1] Members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM), in protest against the law prohibiting the importation and sale of contraceptives in the Republic of Ireland, travelled to Belfast in Northern Ireland to purchase ...
The Irish Women's Liberation Movement was an alliance of a group of Irish women who were concerned about the sexism within Ireland both socially and legally. They first began after a meeting in Dublin's Bewley's Cafe on Grafton Street in 1970. [ 67 ]
McCafferty was a founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. [3] Her journalistic writing on women and women's rights reflected her beliefs on the status of women in Irish society. In 1970, she wrote that "Women's Liberation is finding it very hard to explain the difference, when you come down to it, except in terms of physical ...
Gaj was one of the five founding members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement in 1970. [4] [1] They had their meetings in her restaurant on Baggot Street every Monday. Gaj, who was 20 years older or more than most of the other activists in the IWLM, was affectionally referred to as "Mrs Gaj" or "Mother" by the other members. [2]
Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US. Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in ...
Smyth began her involvement in activism in the later 1970s with the women's liberation movement. [1] [2] She was part of the movement opposed to the 8th Amendment to the Irish constitution, which placed a ban on abortion in Ireland, and a supporter of the campaign to legalise divorce in Ireland in 1986. [1] [2] [3]