Book Launch:Ireland's Hidden Diaspora: the ‘abortion trail’ and the making of a London-Irish underground, 1980-2000by Anne RossiterWhere:
Bookshop at Queen's (University Road) When: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 at 6pm
Refeshments will be provided.
"'Every year, approximately 5,000 women from the Republic of Ireland and 1,500 from Northern Ireland cross the Irish Sea to have an abortion in a British clinic. They come and go in secret, like women ‘on the run’, bearing a terrible burden of shame for two societies in denial. In fact, much pride is taken in the island being seen as a ‘pro-life’ sort of place. We have been constantly reminded over recent years that Ireland has changed, changed utterly, since the establishment of the Peace Agreement in the North, and the emergence of the Celtic Tiger in the Republic. But, when it comes to the right of a woman to choose, it is a place that is still in the dark ages, north and south of the Border."
Interesting to see whats going on underneath all of society.................................
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