What emanates from the huge number of images in this book is the bravery of those who fought misogyny
Road to Repeal opens with a dedication, to those “who contested the repression of women’s rights to control their fertility over the past 50 years”, followed by the now defunct Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, and then a three-page collage, going from black and white to colour, of banners and protesters, placards and marchers. This quilt-like structure serves Road to Repeal well, documenting in photography and text the struggles for contraception and legal abortion in Ireland.
Call it collage, collaboration or quilt, but the ever-moving, ever-evolving mechanics of activism are often condensed to moments, not movements, and leaders, not the collective. But it is of course the movement and the collective that matters. This is the visual vocabulary Road to Repeal roots itself in, beginning in the 1970s when new women’s organisations were shaking up Irish society.
The photographs – many of them by Derek Speirs – illuminate much more than the already growing women’s movement with which the book begins. One example of this is a remarkable photograph of a Contraception Action Programme caravan providing contraceptives in the shadow of the Ballymun towers in 1979.
What emanates from the huge number of images is the bravery of those who stood up against the misogyny that hemmed women and others in. On the steps of courthouses, on rain-soaked streets, in train stations and ferry ports, outside the Dáil and beyond, women gathered in small and large numbers holding their signs aloft.
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