Archive - maeve o'brien writes

“Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence”

The possibility of my creativity is worth fighting for

18 hrs ago •

DRI Collections Profile: Irish LGBT Lives and Activism

Learn about Irish AIDS helplines, all-island LGBT conferences, radical badges, Dublin Pride 1983 and the GAA!

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Partial abortion decriminalisation for England and Wales

Summarising recent developments at Westminster - and the bigger picture

Jun 24 •

Ireland's slave-owning past, and present (part 3)

This third post (in an ongoing series) comes after I led a “Legacies of Slavery in Dublin” walking tour in the city this weekend.

Jun 8 •

May 2025

Walking Tour Announcement - Legacies of Slavery in Dublin

Join us on Saturday 7 June 2025 from 11:00 - 1:00pm.

May 11 •

April 2025

What I loved (recently)

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Apr 26 •

Ireland's slave-owning past, and present (part 2)

Following on from Ireland’s slave-owning past, and present (part 1), in this post I want to profile the walking tour I led in Dublin city in early…

Apr 3 •

March 2025

Sylvia Plath, I'm now ten years older than you

Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas / Succeed in banking their fires / To enter another year?

Mar 20 •

Ireland's slave-owning past, and present (part 1)

From 2009-2012, researchers at University College London embarked on the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project — and out of this has grown the…

Mar 8 •

February 2025

The Omagh bomb.

My submission to the Omagh Bombing Inquiry, 2025.

Feb 17 •

January 2025

Abortion as care-work

Next month, I go to the United States where I will be meeting with comrades in NYC and hopefully Philadelphia to offer solidarity and conduct a learning…

Jan 29 •

The Unbearable Whiteness of the Beat Generation

Unpacking cultural appropriation, patriarchy and the muted critical analysis of racism in Beat Generation poetry and fiction

Jan 6 •

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