scholarly journals Abortion activism, legal change, and taking feminist law work seriously

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. OA7-OA33
Author(s):  
Máiréad Enright ◽  
Kathryn McNeilly ◽  
Fiona De Londras
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Legal Change ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Legislative Action ◽  
Abortion Laws ◽  
The Republic

Abortion laws in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have recently undergone radical reform. This occurred following a 2018 referendum in the Republic and the passing of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 in Northern Ireland. In both jurisdictions, these legal changes are the products not only of moments of constitutional and legislative action or of litigation, but of decades of feminist protest and strategising that both generated and exploited moments of legal opportunity. In this article, drawing on a 2018 workshop and qualitative interviews with feminist activists, we focus attention on what we call the ‘feminist law work’ involved in reform, highlighting the role of non-lawyer activists in achieving legal change in instrumental, creative, emotional, and laborious ways. We argue that ‘feminist law work’ should be taken seriously as a highly skilled and indispensable driving force in formal legal change processes.

scholarly journals Abortion activism, legal change, and taking feminist law work seriously

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-385
Author(s):  
Máiréad Enright ◽  
Kathryn McNeilly ◽  
Fiona De Londras
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Change Processes ◽  
Legal Change ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Radical Reform ◽  
Legislative Action ◽  
Abortion Laws ◽  
The Republic

Abortion laws in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland have recently undergone radical reform. This occurred following a 2018 referendum in the Republic and the passing of the Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 2019 in Northern Ireland. In both jurisdictions, these legal changes are the products not only of moments of constitutional and legislative action or of litigation, but of decades of feminist protest and strategising that both generated and exploited moments of legal opportunity. In this article, drawing on a 2018 workshop and qualitative interviews with feminist activists, we focus attention on what we call the ‘feminist law work’ involved in reform, highlighting the role of non-lawyer activists in achieving legal change in instrumental, creative, emotional, and laborious ways. We argue that ‘feminist law work’ should be taken seriously as a highly skilled and indispensable driving force in formal legal change processes.

Agricultural Policy Networks of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

1995 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Collins
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The Republic

This paper provides an analytical framework within which to understand the contrasting way farmers' interests are aggregated and articulated in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The analysis draws on the dominant European literature on state-farmer relations which emphasizes the role of policy networks and explores whether the concepts of pluralism or corporatism best characterize policy making in the two states.

Accessing abortion outside jurisdiction following legalisation of abortion in the Republic of Ireland

2020 ◽  
pp. bmjsrh-2020-200849
Author(s):  
Sierou Bras ◽  
Rebecca Gomperts ◽  
Michaela Kelly ◽  
Abigail R A Aiken ◽  
Catherine Conlon
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Model Of Care ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Abortion Laws ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Safe Zones

BackgroundAfter having one of the most restrictive abortion laws worldwide, Ireland legalised abortion in January 2019. We examine how legalisation impacted on demand for online telemedicine outside the jurisdiction.MethodsWe analysed anonymised data from 534 people from Ireland seeking online telemedicine abortion prior to legalisation (January–March and October–December 2018) and in the first 3 months following legalisation (January–March 2019). Numbers, characteristics and reasons for seeking the service before and after legalisation were compared. Content analysis of emails from people seeking the service following legalisation explored reasons for seeking care.ResultsHalf as many people contacted Women on Web in the 3 months immediately after legalisation as compared with contacts 12 months prior (103 vs 221). Of these, the proportion receiving the service reduced, from 72% prior to legalisation to 26% after legalisation (p≤0.001). After legalisation, access related reasons for seeking online telemedicine featured less while reasons relating to privacy, stigma and avoiding protestors featured more.ConclusionsPeople continued to seek abortion through online telemedicine after legalisation, though the number of contacts reduced by half and the proportion receiving the service decreased considerably. To address access issues, policy measures should promote normalisation of abortion, legislate for safe zones around providers, and consider access in situations of coercive control or abuse including the role of telemedicine in the local model of care. Abortion provided through online telemedicine continues to be an important part of providing safe, accessible abortion even after legalisation.

Independent regulators of care quality

2018 ◽  
pp. 559-572
Author(s):  
Owen Barr ◽  
Bob Gates
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
People With Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Uk

This chapter provides an overview of the role of the independent care regulators across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. It provides information on arrangements for care regulators within the specific jurisdictions of Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland. This chapter outlines the role of the independent care regulators in both inspecting and supporting the development of quality in services. Nurses for people with intellectual disabilities need to have a rounded and balanced understanding of the role of these care regulators, as well as the standards and resources they provide, in order to maximize the quality of care provided to people with intellectual disabilities.

The role of the university tutor in school-based work in primary schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ievers ◽  
Ken Wylie ◽  
Colette Gray ◽  
Bernadette Ní Áingléis ◽  
Brian Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
School Based ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Translation and postcoloniality in Ireland: the particular and peculiar relationship between Irish Gaelic and English

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tok Freeland Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
National Language ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Irish Language ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Creative Vitality ◽  
Bilingual Writing

Translations in Ireland (between Irish Gaelic and English) take place in two very different scenarios. In the southern Republic, the Irish language is officially the first national language, but it is now spoken by a bare fraction of the population, and is steadily declining as a living language. Translations between Irish and English are supported by the Republic ’s government in various schemes, but are often viewed with suspicion by many of the Irish Gaelic speakers as yet another colonialist move. In the North (Northern Ireland), the long history of repression has made the language a rallying point for nationalists. It is in this political minefield and threatened linguistic zone that both writer and translator must operate. Creative hybridity is revealed not as free of political enmeshments, but rather the reverse: the creative vitality of this particular bilingual writing zone (of both author and translator) results precisely from its highly pressurized milieu. This article argues that translations are served by the reflexive postcolonial understanding of the role of the translator and translation, as well as the original text, within the larger socio-political context.

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