Gender and Modernisation in the Irish Republic International Perspectives on Gender Week 18.

Gender and Modernisation in the Irish Republic International Perspectives on Gender

Week 18

July 12, 1963

Sean Lemass1899-1971

1960s women factory workers

Ireland’s Declining Fertility Rate, 1960-19982011: 2.05 live births / woman

Women’s Organizations,1960s and 1970s

Gay Byrne, The Late, Late Show presenter 1962-1999

1980s: RecessionAnd Drug Dependency

Visit of Pope John Paul II to Ireland, 1979

Campaign Poster, 1983 Referendum

Ireland’s Declining Fertility Rate, 1960-19982011: 2.05 live births / woman

Campaign Posters,Irish referendum on Divorce, 1986

Irish Women’s Studies

Irish Economy Takes Off

Sean O’Casey Bridge, Dublin Docklands

Declining Trust in the Catholic Church

Mary RobinsonIrish President1990-1997

Pro-Choice CampaignPoster, AbortionReferenda 1992

Pro-Life Campaign PosterAbortion Referendum 2002

Campaigning for Access to Abortion

Unfinished Housing near Dublin

Former Dell Factory, Limerick

Irish Unemployment Rate

•Peaked at 15% in 2011

•Under 25 unemployment rate was 25% in Nov 2013

•Peaked at 31% in Jan 2012

Irish graduates protesting at the Famine memorial next to the Irish Center for Financial Services