This archive offers a snapshot of feminist history in the 1960s and 1970s, the institutionalization of women’s centers and women’s studies as an academic discipline, and feminist struggles taking place at colleges and universities, in healthcare and social service centers, in political organizations and neighborhood meetings across the country.

A collection of documents and articles related to abortion and reproductive rights policy and campaigns in Ireland from a number of organisations in the archive.

It is not intended to provide a complete historical outline of reproductive rights issues in Ireland, but to highlight the coverage of these issues in the archive. Materials are grouped chronologically below, and direct links provided to the relevant page in the document PDF.

Explore the rest of the Irish Left Archive for other gender-related matters and sources!

Hosted by the Digital Repository of Ireland ~ The Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment was set up in 2015 by visual artists Cecily Brennan, Alice Maher, Eithne Jordan, and the poet Paula Meehan. It began as an online campaign appealing to fellow artists, writers, musicians, and actors to put their names to a statement calling for a repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (Article 40.3.3). The aim of the campaign group was to promote national and international awareness of the restrictive reproductive laws of Ireland and to encourage and inspire other groups and activists to use cultural means to promote social change.

The group went on to have a large presence at various demonstration marches including March for Choice (2016 & 2017), Strike for Repeal (2017), and International Women's Day (2018). Exhibitions and events included Day of Testimonies (2017) held at Project Arts Centre, Art and Action (2017) held at NCAD Gallery, EVA International Biennial (2018) held in Limerick, various Shred It events (2017-2018), 20 Seconds for Yes (2018) and Witness (2018).

The Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment played a leading role in the decisive referendum with "an unprecedented intervention in the public life of the State on the part of artists". This unique archive is documentary evidence of "a decisive moment in the interface between artists and public policy".

Physical archive materials held at NIVAL may be consulted in the Reading Room by appointment only. Request an appointment by email nivalinfo@staff.ncad.ie

4 series with 113 files containing over 2800 digital images, videos, audio files, and documents.

Some materials have been redacted to exclude personal contact information only.

Creators

Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment

Brennan, Cecily

Jordan, Eithne

Maher, Alice

Meehan, Paula

Published Date

2020

Date

2015-2018

Subjects

Reproductive rights

Abortion

Pro-choice movement

Art

Artists

Art Activism

Artist-led movements

Protest movements

National Campaigns

Constitutional law--Ireland

The Eighth Amendment

Constitutional amendments

Referendum

Women's rights

Personal narratives

Social history

Medical History

Subjects (Places)

Dublin

Ireland

Types

Collection

Rights

The photographic material, press clippings, art works and design works are subject to copyright restrictions. For material published on the website please note the attached copyright statements. Please consult NIVAL staff re other material in the collection.

Licence

Please see individual objects for licensing information

Depositing Organisation

National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), NCAD

The Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley, Library, collection of speeches, published essays and pamphlets, excerpts from her books, correspondence etc.

Links to some National Council of Women of Canada reports, hosted by The Online Books Page.

Atria ~ institute on gender equality and women's history

Posters were always popular wherever women organised, held conferences and demonstrated, and were used to communicate their ideas and viewpoints. It was a cheap and effective way of bringing campaign issues to the general public’s attention. Atria’s collection contains more than 9,000 posters.

All the posters can be viewed online and ordered in a digital format. When publishing, please be aware that copyright requirements may apply.

Complete, open access, everything from a single source – this is what the digital edition of Rosa Luxemburg's writings offers. Since the 1970s, Dietz Berlin has published the most comprehensive collection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings. The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is responsible for supervising the issue. In the future, the digital edition will expand the volumes available in book form, make it possible to discover Luxembourg for the first time, comprehensively and, above all, freely accessible.

Spare Rib Magazine, running from 1972-93, Spare Rib Magazine this now iconic magazine challenged the stereotyping and exploitation of women, while supporting collective, realistic solutions to the hurdles women faced. Also find on Internet Archive

The Suffrage Postcard Project is a digital humanities initiative that considers how illustrations and images of motherhood and fatherhood circulated transatlantically in early-twentieth-century postcards, both for and against women’s suffrage.

Take a journey through the personal, political and economic struggles that have symbolised women's battle for equality over the past 500 years, through a representative selection of the broad range of materials in LSE Library and The Women's Library @ LSE. A chronological presentation of more than 300 items from the 16th Century to the present day can be found in the timeline and in the additional items.

Includes rare books, Emily Wilding Davison Centenary exhibition, photographs and postcards, pamphlets and magazines, and archives.

Website of a project on the history of A history of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) with some links to reports, presentations and some photographs.

Material archives at the National Library of Australia.

WEL is a feminist non-party-political lobby founded in Australia in 1972. WEL’s role as an advocate for women is recognised in the political and social history of Australia. WEL has been at the forefront of the struggle for equal employment opportunity, access to quality childcare, sex discrimination legislation, reproductive rights and women’s election to Parliament.

This collection contains manifestos, speeches, essays, and other materials documenting various aspects of the Women's Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s.

Women’s Liberation Movement Print Culture-Duke University

This is a selection of material from The Women’s Library collection. This collection grew out of the London Society for Women’s Suffrage which was founded in 1867. It started its formal life as a library in 1926 to preserve the history of suffrage but also to be a resource to women who were hoping to enter the professions.

This collection contains suffrage newspapers, journals, pamphlets, leaflets and annual reports of different suffrage groups covering the women’s suffrage campaign from the late 19th century to 1928 when women were granted equal voting rights with men. You will be able to read about the campaign from the suffrage pamphlet collection of Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, suffragist and socialist, and from the suffrage newspapers of the late 19th century, such as Women’s Suffrage Journal and Shafts.

This collection continues into the 1930s. Journals continued to be published: The Vote, Jus Suffragii, and the Common Cause became the Woman's Leader. There are also annual reports of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship and the conference reports of the British Commonwealth League.

This collection covers suffrage activity at home and abroad, but also highlights other feminist activism.

LSE Library acknowledges the kind support of the Friends of the Women's Library in making the digitisation of this collection possible.