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#OnThisDay 8th June 1975 Irish Women United was constituted.
Their magazine, Banshee, explains their foundation:
https://www.leftarchive.ie/calendar/on-this-day/06/08/#event-5524
#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Feminism #IrishWomenUnited #Banshee #OTD
You'll find more on the 8th Amendment campaign and the long history of activism on abortion and reproductive rights in this document collection on the subject, which has been updated to include new material.
It contain documents from campaign groups including Irish Women United, Irish Women's Right To Choose Group, Abortion Rights Campaign, and Together For Yes, as well as parties from across the Irish left -- The Workers' Party, Revolutionary Marxist Group, SWP, Socialist Party, Sinn Féin, and People's Democracy.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/collection/2041/
#ReproductiveRights #ProChoice #Abortion #Contraception #Feminism #IrishPolitics #IrishLeftArchive
From 1978, Women's Action, published by the Belfast Women's Collective.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/629/
#IrishPolitics #IrishHistory #Belfast #Feminism #BelfastWomensCollective #IrishLeftArchive
A list of pubs to boycott who wouldn't serve women, from 1976.
Taken from Banshee, magazine of Irish Women United.
The practice of refusing to serve women in some bars didn't end completely until the late 1990s.
https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/view/2728/?page=15
#IrishHistory #IrishPolitics #Feminism #IrishWomenUnited #Banshee #IrishLeftArchive
An account of a 1977 Irish Women United action to buy and distribute the UK second wave feminist magazine, Spare Rib, in response to the Irish censor banning it as 'obscene'.
From the Irish Women United magazine, Banshee: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1894/
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From 1976, Banshee, no. 4, from Irish Women United.