Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan! ‘Invisible Women’ by Brian Moore

08/03/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

Ní Saoirse go Saoirse na mBan! ‘Invisible Women’ (by Brian Moore) The singer sings a rebel song and everybody sings along. Just one thing I’ll never understand: Every damn rebel seems to be a man. For he sings of the Bold Fenian Men And the Boys of the Old Brigade. What about the women who […]

#OTD in 1923 – International reaction to Government executions.

23/01/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

The Irish government Representative in Washington, Timothy Smiddy wrote to External Affairs minister Desmond Fitzgerald about US concerns regarding the execution of Anti-Treaty Irregulars, especially the PR fallout if women were to be executed. “A report given last week to the American papers by Mrs Despard from Paris (a cutting of which has already been […]

#OTD in 1974 – A group of protesting women invade the Forty Foot, traditionally a male only swimming point in Sandycove, Dublin.

20/07/2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

A group of about 10 women calling themselves the Dublin City Women’s Invasionary Force invade the Forty Foot, a traditional men only public bathing preserves in Sandycove, Dublin. The bathing place, made famous by James Joyce in Ulysses, had been exclusively male until then and the women were greeted with sexist abuse and male nudity, according to one […]

Brehon Law | Celtic Triads

07/07/2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

In Celtic culture, the people were governed by civil law. The old Brehon Law of Ireland is still extant. Even Kings and Queens were subject to the Law; in fact, they ruled only by the will of the People. The people could both vote them in, and vote them out. Men and women both enjoyed […]