A Conversation with Dr. Margaret Ward – Episode 24

buy neurontin no prescription Dr. margaret ward smiling into cameraWe are delighted to sit down this week with feminist historian Dr. Margaret Ward. We discuss what modern Ireland can learn about influential women who have helped shape society, how civic society can drive change, referendum on presidential voting rights, citizens assembly on Irish Unity, her new book, Fearless Women and much more.

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Along with Dr. Myrtle Hill and Lynda Walker, she curates the website A Century of Women and is well worth checking out.

An historian, Dr Margaret Ward has authored a number of books on women’s history including Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism (1995) and a biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: A Life (1997), Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Feiner (2017), and recently this summer, Fearless Woman (2019).

buy modafinil in bangalore Dr Margaret Ward is Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen’s University, Belfast. She is a feminist historian, with a particular interest in the contribution of Irish women to political movements in the 20th century. A graduate of Queen’s University, Margaret has a long-standing interest in teaching feminist history, beginning in 1975 when she developed the first course in women’s studies for the Extra-Mural Department at Queen’s University, followed by tutoring for the Workers’ Educational Association on courses in Irish history and women’s history.

From 1984-1986 Margaret was Women’s Officer with the Department of Community Services, Belfast City Council. She organised (along with Joanna McMinn) a one-day symposium on the women’s movement in the north of Ireland, the proceedings of which she published as a pamphlet, A Difficult, Dangerous Honesty. An Ulster Unionist boycott of Council business during the ‘Ulster Says No’ period led to the post not being made permanent so Margaret moved to England, where she taught at the University of the West of England and Bath Spa University. Margaret has a PhD from the University of the West of England and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Ulster, for her contribution to advancing women’s equality.

On her return to Belfast Margaret became assistant director of the think-tank Democratic Dialogue from 2000-2005. She was Director of the Women’s Resource and Development Agency from 2005 until her retirement at the end of 2013. While Director of WRDA, on behalf of Reclaim the Agenda, Margaret led the project ‘Belfast Women’s History Tour’ and wrote the pamphlet Celebrating Belfast women: a city guide through women’s eyes, which has been used to inform feminist bus tours of Belfast.

Amongst her many publications are Unmanageable Revolutionaries: women and Irish Nationalism (1983), biographies of Maud Gonne and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and edited works (with Louise Ryan), Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens and Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: suffragette and Sinn Féiner, her memoirs and political writings, UCD Press, 2017. Her latest book is Fearless Women (2019). Margaret is currently a Trustee of the National Museums Northern Ireland and a board member of Libraries NI. As part of the Decade of Centenaries Margaret has been involved in delivering lectures on women’s involvement in political movements at venues throughout Ireland and Britain.

 

 

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A Conversation with Professor Colin Harvey – Episode 22

We are honored to welcome Professor Colin Harvey to our podcast this week. Among the topics discussed this week is parity of esteem, civic society, Irish language, unity debate, human rights, and returning to the EU.

Professor Colin Harvey is a leading expert in Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law, with a particular focus on bills of rights, refugee and asylum law, as well as the relationship between constitutionalism and rights and equality. His has also worked extensively on the implications of Brexit for the island of Ireland. He has written and taught widely on human rights law and policy and recently led an ESRC funded project on the consequences of Brexit for Northern Ireland.

You can read his list of publications and bio here.

 

Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, a Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies. He has served as Head of the Law School, a member of Senate, a Director of the Human Rights Centre, and as a Director of Research. Before returning to Queen’s in 2005 he was Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at the University of Leeds. He has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan, Fordham University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught on the George Washington University – Oxford University Summer School in International Human Rights Law, and on the international human rights programme at the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Academic Panel at Doughty Street Chambers, a Senior Research Associate, Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London, a member of the Gender Identity Panel (Northern Ireland) and member of the Equality and Diversity Forum Research Network. Professor Harvey was a member of the REF2014 Law sub-panel and a member of the REF2014 Equality and Diversity Advisory Panel. He has served as a Commissioner on the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, and as a member of the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council. He is the Editor of the Series Human Rights Law in Perspective (Hart-Bloomsbury) and is on the editorial boards of Human Rights Law Review, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and European Human Rights Law Review. He has written and taught extensively on human rights law and policy and recently led an ESRC funded project on the consequences of Brexit for Northern Ireland (https://brexitlawni.org/)

 

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