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Tag: Rebecca O’Connor

Speaking from the Body: Trauma, Pregnancy and the Eighth Amendment in Contemporary Irish Writing

15th September 201922nd May 2020  Laura Hackett

For women in Northern Ireland and a post-Repeal Republic telling stories which speak from the body and its traumas remains a powerful tool, argues Laura Hackett when considering the work of Sally Rooney, Lucy Caldwell, Sinéad Gleeson and others.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Abortion, Anna Burns, Being Various, Constellations, Conversations with Friends, Eimear McBride, Fiction, Ireland, Irish Literature, Lucy Caldwell, Milkman, Normal People, Novel, Pan Macmillan, Rebecca O'Connor, Sally Rooney, Savita Halappanavar, Short Stories, Short Story, Sinéad Gleeson, The Eighth Amendment, The Lesser Bohemians
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