Woman's Hour in Ireland

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

This time last year there was a referendum in Ireland about abortion. The country voted to change its strict laws and make it legal up to 12 weeks. So Jane and the crew are taking the whole show to Dublin to talk about how the country's changed for women over the last 12 months.

As well as examining how abortion provision is actually working, we’ll discuss divorce because in a couple of weeks they’ll be another referendum on that too. We'll also talk about the correct way to memorialise Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and Industrial Schools. Plus, there's a clause in the Irish Constitution about a woman's place in the home but many women argue it's outdated and patriarchal, so we'll tackle that subject too.

There’s so much to talk about. It’ll be a lively, freewheeling discussion with our panellists Dr Rhona Mahony who is Executive Director of Women's Health in Ireland East; Susan Lohan who's a member of the Collaborative Forum on Mother and Baby Homes, and the author and essayist Sinéad Gleeson. And there's live music from singer and songwriter Ailbhe Reddy.

We're live from the beautiful meeting room in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.

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0:00.0	Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.
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0:41.0	Hi, this is the Woman's Our Podcast, Tuesday, May the 7th, 20th. podcasts. Dublin. We were in the meeting room there, a splendid Georgian setting. We had a fantastic panel of guests and we were basically hoping to scrape the surface really of Irish women's lives and lots and lots of changes over the last decade or so.
1:04.0	And it's something we thought was really worth marking and celebrating and discussing.
1:08.0	So that's what we did on the program today.
1:10.0	I should say that at times the sound quality at the start of this program isn't brilliant
1:14.8	but trust me it does get better and it's worth persevering because some of the contributions
1:19.2	this morning were really really interesting.
1:21.7	Good morning and welcome to the fantastic Georgian splendour of the Royal Irish Academy
1:26.2	in Dawson Street in Dublin.
1:27.9	Can we have some applause from the audience today?
1:29.2	Thank you very, very much. That ended brilliantly, very quickly. Real drama there.
1:40.3	This incredible building, it is magnificent actually.
1:43.0	It has this incredible duck.
1:45.0	Now what color did we decide the ceiling was?
1:47.7	Duck egg blue, duck egg blue ceiling
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