{"title":"\"There Is No Limit to What Could Be Done\": Considering the Past and Potential of Irish Queer Health Activism","authors":"Bridget E. Keown","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48330789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We began conceiving of this special issue in the heady weeks and months following the May 2018 vote to repeal the republic’s antiabortion Eighth Amendment (1983). For just a moment all things seemed possible in terms of Irish women’s health-care rights and realities. Even then, however, our training in reproductive justice— a framework created by American Black women encouraging us to move beyond a rights-based or legalistic framework to instead focus on intersectional access to women’s bodily autonomy and the real-world contexts of reproduction (Ross, Radical Reproductive Justice; Ross, “What Is Reproductive Justice?”; Sister Song; Silliman et al.)—cautioned us against being overly optimistic. In working and living in the United States, we knew firsthand that legality often is less important to abortion access than a person’s race or ethnicity, region, immigration status, and/or socioeconomic status. In late 2018, despite the referendum in the republic, the actual abortion legislation that would emerge was unclear. Moreover, Ireland’s healthcare system, especially for women, had long been, as Jo MurphyLawless’s work both here and previously has exposed, particularly dismal (Murphy-Lawless, “The Silencing of Women in Childbirth”; Murphy-Lawless, Reading Birth and Death). When limited legal abortion was introduced in the republic in early 2019, and, later that year, Northern Ireland took steps to decriminalize abortion, it became evident that actually providing abortion services island-wide would be a
{"title":"Editors' Introduction: Women's Health and Reproductive Justice in Ireland","authors":"Cara Delay, C. Bracken","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"We began conceiving of this special issue in the heady weeks and months following the May 2018 vote to repeal the republic’s antiabortion Eighth Amendment (1983). For just a moment all things seemed possible in terms of Irish women’s health-care rights and realities. Even then, however, our training in reproductive justice— a framework created by American Black women encouraging us to move beyond a rights-based or legalistic framework to instead focus on intersectional access to women’s bodily autonomy and the real-world contexts of reproduction (Ross, Radical Reproductive Justice; Ross, “What Is Reproductive Justice?”; Sister Song; Silliman et al.)—cautioned us against being overly optimistic. In working and living in the United States, we knew firsthand that legality often is less important to abortion access than a person’s race or ethnicity, region, immigration status, and/or socioeconomic status. In late 2018, despite the referendum in the republic, the actual abortion legislation that would emerge was unclear. Moreover, Ireland’s healthcare system, especially for women, had long been, as Jo MurphyLawless’s work both here and previously has exposed, particularly dismal (Murphy-Lawless, “The Silencing of Women in Childbirth”; Murphy-Lawless, Reading Birth and Death). When limited legal abortion was introduced in the republic in early 2019, and, later that year, Northern Ireland took steps to decriminalize abortion, it became evident that actually providing abortion services island-wide would be a","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48033397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The history of women’s health care is characterized by silenced or heavily edited episodes that have contributed to the neglect of women’s bodies and minds and accordingly prevented them from receiving the best possible treatments. As Hannah Devlin has contended, this prevailing attitude toward women’s health has triggered “a string of health-care scandals over several decades” in which the voices of the patients have been consistently ignored. Ireland is no exception in this respect, and its history, both past and present, is punctuated by the silencing of women’s voices and bodies in the clinical encounter. The death of Savita Halappanavar in October 2012 at Galway University Hospital—where, in spite of her physical distress and severe complications in the midst of a miscarriage, she was refused a termination of her pregnancy because there was still a fetal heartbeat—stands out among the recent failures of the Irish medical, religious, and political systems with respect to women, and it has left an indelible impact on the campaigns for reproductive justice in the
妇女保健的历史特点是沉默或大量编辑的片段，导致忽视妇女的身体和思想，从而使她们无法得到最好的治疗。正如汉娜·德夫林(Hannah Devlin)所主张的那样，这种对女性健康的普遍态度引发了“几十年来一系列医疗保健丑闻”，在这些丑闻中，患者的声音一直被忽视。爱尔兰在这方面也不例外，它的历史，无论是过去还是现在，都被女性在临床遭遇中沉默的声音和身体所打断。2012年10月，Savita Halappanavar在戈尔韦大学医院(Galway University hospital)死亡，尽管她在流产过程中出现了身体不适和严重并发症，但她被拒绝终止妊娠，因为她仍然有胎儿的心跳。这是爱尔兰医疗、宗教和政治系统最近在妇女方面的失败之一，对爱尔兰的生殖正义运动产生了不可磨灭的影响
{"title":"Gendered Silence and Misdiagnosis in the Clinical Encounter: Celia de Fréine's Blood Debts and the Hepatitis C Scandal in Ireland","authors":"Luz Mar González-Arias","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"The history of women’s health care is characterized by silenced or heavily edited episodes that have contributed to the neglect of women’s bodies and minds and accordingly prevented them from receiving the best possible treatments. As Hannah Devlin has contended, this prevailing attitude toward women’s health has triggered “a string of health-care scandals over several decades” in which the voices of the patients have been consistently ignored. Ireland is no exception in this respect, and its history, both past and present, is punctuated by the silencing of women’s voices and bodies in the clinical encounter. The death of Savita Halappanavar in October 2012 at Galway University Hospital—where, in spite of her physical distress and severe complications in the midst of a miscarriage, she was refused a termination of her pregnancy because there was still a fetal heartbeat—stands out among the recent failures of the Irish medical, religious, and political systems with respect to women, and it has left an indelible impact on the campaigns for reproductive justice in the","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47122670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scéal scéil/hearsay","authors":"Celia de Fréine","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49577478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"We Can't Keep Painting Over Our Problems\": Murals, Social Media, and Feminist Activism in Ireland","authors":"Rachael Young","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48373567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On 25 May 2018 the Eighth Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish Constitution, was repealed in a referendum vote, and abortion provision in Ireland was significantly liberalized as a result. Repeal had been expected. The Yes side led opinion polls during the campaign, and polls over many years indicated that attitudes to abortion had been transformed from the conservative views that dominated in the 1980s. But the size of the Yes victory and the large turnout among voters were a surprise to many. Abortion policy has assailed Irish politics for nearly four decades, and the 2018 referendum was the sixth time a question had been put to the people on aspects of abortion policy since the first referendum in 1983. By 2018 the central issues had been extensively debated over a long period, but with notable evidence of a change in tone and complexity. Early debates leading to the 1983 vote were marked by absolutist arguments and traditional belief systems on the part of the dominant anti-abortion side, and the first referendum campaign has been singled out for its “rancor and divisiveness.” However, by the time of the fifth abortion referendum in 2002, Fiachra Kennedy could characterize the debate as comprised of a “series of moral conundrums.” A succession of “hard cases,” legal judgments, and sustained campaigns inside and outside of parliament led the
{"title":"Voting on Abortion Again and Again and Again: Campaign Efforts and Effects","authors":"T. Reidy","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"On 25 May 2018 the Eighth Amendment of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Irish Constitution, was repealed in a referendum vote, and abortion provision in Ireland was significantly liberalized as a result. Repeal had been expected. The Yes side led opinion polls during the campaign, and polls over many years indicated that attitudes to abortion had been transformed from the conservative views that dominated in the 1980s. But the size of the Yes victory and the large turnout among voters were a surprise to many. Abortion policy has assailed Irish politics for nearly four decades, and the 2018 referendum was the sixth time a question had been put to the people on aspects of abortion policy since the first referendum in 1983. By 2018 the central issues had been extensively debated over a long period, but with notable evidence of a change in tone and complexity. Early debates leading to the 1983 vote were marked by absolutist arguments and traditional belief systems on the part of the dominant anti-abortion side, and the first referendum campaign has been singled out for its “rancor and divisiveness.” However, by the time of the fifth abortion referendum in 2002, Fiachra Kennedy could characterize the debate as comprised of a “series of moral conundrums.” A succession of “hard cases,” legal judgments, and sustained campaigns inside and outside of parliament led the","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48902089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding the State to Account: \"Picking Up the Threads\" for Women Who Have Died in Irish Maternity Services","authors":"J. Murphy-Lawless","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47231899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"It's Most Peculiar That This Particular Story Doesn't Get Told\": A Reproductive-Justice Analysis of Storytelling in the Repeal Campaign in Ireland, 2012–18","authors":"Katie Mishler","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66304977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There has been considerable discussion about why breastfeeding rates in Ireland are the lowest in Europe, perhaps even the lowest globally. Newspaper articles and blogs signal how fraught the topic has become: breastfeeding, or rather its widespread absence, is presented not just as a fact but as a crisis and a site for national self-examination. Why, ask all the newspapers, don’t Irish mothers breastfeed? As medical literature and social movements in both western and developing nations argue for the benefits of breastfeeding, Ireland has witnessed a mobilization at both the national and grassroots level to encourage mothers to nurse their babies. Lady Sabina
{"title":"Shame and the Breastfeeding Mother in Ireland","authors":"A. Bender","doi":"10.1353/eir.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/eir.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"There has been considerable discussion about why breastfeeding rates in Ireland are the lowest in Europe, perhaps even the lowest globally. Newspaper articles and blogs signal how fraught the topic has become: breastfeeding, or rather its widespread absence, is presented not just as a fact but as a crisis and a site for national self-examination. Why, ask all the newspapers, don’t Irish mothers breastfeed? As medical literature and social movements in both western and developing nations argue for the benefits of breastfeeding, Ireland has witnessed a mobilization at both the national and grassroots level to encourage mothers to nurse their babies. Lady Sabina","PeriodicalId":43507,"journal":{"name":"EIRE-IRELAND","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66304990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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