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Art Encounters | How To Get There…

‘I grabbed you by the gilded beams, That’s what tradition means.’ The Smiths, I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish. Last year, having skipped over it during my undergraduate years, I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. One…

Life Lessons on Sexism in Ireland

On Friday March 3rd the news that human remains had indeed been found at the mother and baby home in Tuam broke. The Citizens' Assembly met that same weekend to debate the calls for a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment. On Wednesday…