by Barbara | Dec 2, 2022 | BOOKS, Feminism, Women
My book, Wise Up (Wisdom, Power, and the Older Woman) published last June and just over a month later I was in my beloved Ahakista on the Sheep’s Head Peninsual in West Cork. Ahakista is not really a village, but it does have two great pubs, one of which is the Tin...
by Barbara | Mar 31, 2022 | Feminism
New book. It’s been so long since I posted on my blog, I have almost forgotten how to do it. But I wanted to let you know that I have written a book. Covid lockdowns swept away all my excuses and I finally managed to write more than 10,000 words –...
by Barbara | Aug 22, 2018 | Feminism
If you’re a feminist it’s very, very easy to hate the Rose of Tralee. A parade of young women (who up until recently had to be unmarried and not mothers) marched out one by one to have inane conversations with the male host, cheered on by their male ‘escorts’ and...
by Barbara | Apr 26, 2017 | Feminism
I was educated by nuns in Secondary School in Dublin. My experience was almost entirely positive. After five years (no TY then) I left my Catholic ethos, convent school with a clear idea of how to be a strong independent woman, able to speak up for herself and stand...
by Barbara | Nov 7, 2016 | Feminism
As some of you might know I have been very exercised by the lack of women guests on Ireland’s premier entertainment and chat show, The Late Late Show, since it began this seasons run in September. I have been tweeting about it most Fridays using the hashtag...
by Barbara | Aug 26, 2013 | Feminism
A few years ago BBC2 screened a documentary series called ‘Tribal Wives’. In each episode a different British woman went to live for a period of weeks with a so called ‘primitive’ tribe in various parts of the developing world. There was one particular episode that...
