S3 Episode 1: Women in Politics

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this first episode of Season 3, we explore the fascinating story of Irish women in politics from 1916 to the present day. We ask why women – integral to the foundation of the state – almost disappeared from the country’s political landscape until relatively recently, and why 2019 could represent a new era of revolutionary change. Historians Mary McAuliffe and Emma O’Toole explain why radical feminist politics was so central to the Irish Revolution, while journalist Martina Fitzgerald outlines the challenges faced by female politicians during the 20th century. Naomi speaks to Hazel Chu, who is vying to become the country’s first Irish-Chinese political representative, and Union of Student of Ireland representative Aisling Cusack tells us why things are changing, and changing fast … For bonus episodes, support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/theirishpassport. Season 3 of The Irish Passport podcast is made with the kind support of Biddy Murphy, online sellers of genuine Irish goods. Check them out on www.biddymurphy.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook: @PassportIrish.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners and welcome to a brand new season three of the Irish Passport podcast.
0:05.3	Hello! And before we launch into the first episode of this season, we have something to tell you all.
0:09.9	Yes, it all started with an email from a listener called Ward Gahan, who's originally from Clonmel in Tipperary.
0:17.8	His nephew had tipped him off about our podcast.
0:20.4	I listened to all kinds of podcasts,
0:22.7	but a lot of them related to Irish kind of history and culture and current political affairs.
0:27.5	I was sharing some of the podcast with my nephew who lives in London. And he said to me,
0:32.8	oh, you've got to listen to this one. Ward lives in Michigan in the United States. He moved there
0:37.0	back in the 1980s for a job in electrical engineering, but all that time he never lost touch with home in
0:42.7	Ireland. On his trips back and forth, an idea came to him. I get the mail order catalogs,
0:47.7	and I look at the products in there, and a lot of it was, I suppose you'd call it now a plastic
0:53.5	paddy, was like you take anything and stick a shamrock on it.
0:56.8	I said, you know, but this isn't really Irish, you know.
0:59.4	I mean, it may be a perception of what Irishness is or what Irish products are.
1:03.9	But rather than this mail order thing with my electronic engineering background and all those
1:08.9	interesting kind of tech developments, I said,
1:11.5	I wonder if I could start a business here selling products online. I didn't want to get into
1:16.9	the people who were the mass producers. So I was looking for something that you wouldn't be
1:21.7	able to find everywhere, something that was unique and different and distinctives. And I think
1:25.5	people like that as a gift that, you know, you've put a bit of thought into
1:29.3	that you're going to give them something that they're not necessarily going to find
1:31.6	everyplace else.
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