Chair: Gaye Partridge, chair, Ireland Regional Women’s Committee
Keynote speaker: Therese Moriarty (labour historian)
Panel (chair: Taryn Trainor, Regional Women’s Officer)
Dympna McGlade, Catherine Mallon, Amy Ferguson, Michelle Byrne
Monday March 8th, 1pm – 2.30pm
Five decades on: From chains to change
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During the 1970s, women throughout the island of Ireland came together to demand action on a range of issues from equal pay to domestic violence, childcare, the rights of single parents and access to contraception.
The Irish Women’s Liberation Movement was formed in the Republic in 1970, while the Northern Ireland Women’s Rights Movement was established in 1975 and joined by women from both nationalist & unionist communities. 50 years ago, in May 1971, members of the IWLM took a train from Dublin to Belfast where they bought contraceptives (then illegal in the Republic) before returning with them to Dublin. We stand on the shoulders of the women who went before us. Join us on International Women’s Day to look back on women’s struggles in the 1970s, reflect on the victories won by women over the past five decades and what they mean for women today, and discuss the challenges still facing us.