Part 2 of our podcast which examines the voter numbers behind the 1922 general election following the signing of the treaty by Michael Collins.   In part 1, we found out Michael Collins along with Arthur Griffith conspired to deny women the vote because they knew that women, especially young women, were ardent Republicans. The GE result would give Collins the mandate he felt he needed to go to war.   Why were women denied the franchise? The numbers talk for themselves     Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceireland and Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@awomansplaceire SOURCES Rosemary Cullen Owens Smashing Times: A History Of the Irish Suffrage Movement 1889-1922 Shannon Area History Group - Ordinary women in extraordinary times https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-03-02/23/ THOMAS MOHR - THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE - https://www.jstor.org/stable/44026835 https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/was-1918-a-false-dawn-for-irish-women-1.3705917

On this episode of A Woman's Place we are joined by Dr Josesph Trachtman, O.D, Ph.D to talk about his work which involves treating PTSD through the eye. Joseph Trachtman, O.D., Ph.D. is one of the approximately 60 optometrists world-wide, who has earned the status of F.C.O.V.D.-A, and one of the few in private practice with this distinction.  Dr. Trachtman is internationally renowned for his work offering visual rehabilitation, neurofeedback for vision (biofeedback), and optometric vision therapy.   As well as being a pioneer in sports vision, he is the world's expert in biofeedback applications for vision problems. Based on NASA research, Dr. Trachtman invented biofeedback devices for a variety of vision problems: relaxation and reeducation of the ciliary muscle, nearsightedness, farsightedness, presbyopia, strabismus, amblyopia, nystagmus, and vision related to TBI, PTSD, and stroke. Dr. Trachtman provides personal attention to all his patients. Dr. Trachtman has published over 70 scientific articles and written five books. A veteran himself, Dr Tractman Provides free treatment to veterans with PTSD.   Discover more about his work on his site: http://www.accommotrac.com/Accommotrac_Vision_Trainer/About_Me.html

Here's a bit of history they don't teach you in school folks: the majority of women were denied the franchise in 1922. We posit that this exclusion at a fundamental moment of our state meant that the Treaty side swept the 1922 General Election.   What we have come to uncover is that Michael Collins along with Arthur Griffith conspired to deny women the vote because they knew that women, especially young women, were ardent Republicans. The GE result would give Collins the mandate he felt he needed to go to war.   Listen as we recount the moment that led up to this, frankly treasonous act, by the pro-treaty side which would eventually lead to a theocratic male-dominant patriarchy denying women the right to abortion, to work and imprisionment in the home.  Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceireland and Tik Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@awomansplaceire   SOURCES Rosemary Cullen Owens Smashing Times: A History Of the Irish Suffrage Movement 1889-1922   Shannon Area History Group - Ordinary women in extraordinary times   https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1922-03-02/23/ THOMAS MOHR -  THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE -  https://www.jstor.org/stable/44026835   https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/was-1918-a-false-dawn-for-irish-women-1.3705917   Clips used: Mary MacSweeney debated along with Michael Collins and Eamon DeValera in the historic Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates. Her no-compromise rebublicanism really comes across in the speech. Performed by Christina O' Sullivan for UCC Philosoph Society. Directed by Sean Creagh and Owen Murphy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYLVeeU8W4

In episode 28 of A Woman's Place, Christina reads you a critical essay on the formula that makes up disaster. Looking at the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and contributing vulnerabilities of the society and how economic inequality plays a major role in creating 'disaster'. She discusses disaster as an outcome rather than an event and outlines lessons learned that we can apply to our own communities and personal lives.   In the wake of the IPCC report on Climate Change, if we are to avert disasters today and in the future, we first need to understand how they are created.    

We chatted about the emergence of neoliberalism and why it's hard to define. We go through a basic overview of the ideology and how it affects out lives-socially and economically- and it's emergence under Thatcher & Reagan aka Season 2 of The Crown   We talk about how globalism and neoliberalism is colonialism rebranded.    We think it's especially important that everyone knows these terms and why everything costs an arm and a leg so that we can confidently talk and strategise against it.   Find us on Twitter & Instagram & Tik Tok @awomansplaceire

In this episode, we talk about the founding of American "democracy", Irish partition and how supremacists states stack the deck against groups seen as neither fully a citizen nor human. In America it was black people, in Ireland it was Catholics. We give an overview of Gerrymandering and how it works, keeping minority governments in power even when their opponents have more votes!

In the 25th episode of a Woman’s Place we are asking Sorcha: What the Fu¢k is a Republic? We look at the history of republicanism and give a brief overview of Republicanism in Europe and its roots in Ireland. La connexion Francaise is very important as we’ll come to learn!   We clear up some terms for you, discuss what makes Irish Republicanism different to other types of republics and we touch briefly on the events that brought about partition in Ireland.   Some famous names pop up including Wolfe Tone, Michael Collins, Eamon DeValera and Oliver Cromwell! Song in episode is: Kevin Barry sung by P.J Murrihy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEsrklQQq9A   Find us on social media @awomansplaceire on Twitter and @awomansplaceirepodcast on IG

In episode 24 of a Woman's Place Podcast, we get into the vanishing of women's pockets and the relationship between a lack of pockets in women's clothing and control. The ability to conceal something on your person can be said to be directly related to the level of freedom you enjoy. Practices are employed by authorities that often restrict this ability- most notably through things like 'stop and frisk' in America which allows the police to search people whenever they please. In this episode, we talk about how authorities banned the use of pockets for women because of the fear of what they might be concealing, how that led to the handbag and then to the eventual performative pockets we see today on women's clothing. Join us as we take a look at the timeline of women's fashion to see where it all went wrong.   Find us on social media @awomansplaceire on Twitter and @awomansplaceirepodcast on IG

Clodagh Finn, a graduate of UCC, UCD and the European School of Journalism, Paris is a journalist who has worked for the Irish Examiner, the Sunday Independent and the Irish Independent and as a freelance writer and editor in Paris. She has a particular interest in history and archaeology. She lives in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, and in October 2019 her book Through Her Eyes - A new history of Ireland in 21 Women was published. We are delighted to welcome Clodagh on the podcast to talk about Joan Denise Moriarty, Mary Elmes, Mary McSwiney and other intriguing women in Irish history!   Follow us online: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceirepodcast/  

A short 30 minute voicenote of the things we tweeted this week with some background information for you to give you a better understanding of what's going on in the world.   Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire

This episode is a very special Halloween/Samhain special to wrap up the series on witches! We are talking about Faeries in Irish society! We didn't really have witches here in Ireland but we did have those pesky faeries. Find out about this long standing Irish mythology, who the faeries were and listen as we talk about death, superstition and things our mothers (maybe) have done at funerals. Happy Samhain/Halloween to all our listeners and thank you for listening. Find us on our social media   IG: @awomansplaceire

Ok girlies, we're really spoiling you this week. I have been pondering this notion in my head after salivating over The Vampire Diaries' Damon Salvatore for a solid 4 weeks and before that it was Che Guevara  (Today, my love is Hasan Piker, but that's another episode) and I couldn't quite put my finger on why they are so goddamn sexy until finally I did this voicenote to tease it out!  And babes, it's about more than control. I talk about male sexuality, male sexual agency and the power that MEN don't seem to think that they have over themselves.   Have a listen!   Also, please don't share this with my Mother. Thanks xoxo   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceireland    

We had fun with this one huns! We talk about the modern depiction of witches in Popular Culture and focus in on the BAD witches and look at their 15th Century origins including the Hansel & Gretel witch, the Snow White Queen, Malificient and more. We also touch on ENVY and how it is a contributing factor to ONLINE ABUSE! We talk about Bloggers Unveiled, Coleen Rooney and most recently Charlotte from Geordie Shore and how they rooted out their envious Instagram abusers

Back in...sometime this year? Tina did an hour with WWW on Dublin Digital Radio. Here is the first of her appearances with the show detailing songs of revolution and protest from Portugal, Australia, South America, Ireland and more. There are wonderful feminist anthems including "The Pill" and "El violador en tu camino" and songs in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Some of these might surprise you to learn the background of. It's a seriously fun hour with a history lesson to boot Enjoy!

In the 19th episode of A Woman's Place we discuss how Women/Witches are to blame for the misfortunes of mankind, especially disease. We take you back to the Black Death in Europe in 1346 and document how one of the most traumatic events in European history led to the witch hunts just two centuries later.   Sorcha talks you through some of the Religious elements, including the two popes that kept excommunicating each other, as well as painting the picture of what the environment was like between the periods of the Black Death in the 1300s and witch hunting in the 1500s.   Links to the stories mentioned in the podcast include Dr. Shi Zhengli aka 'Bat Woman' https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/world/asia/china-covid-wuhan-lab-leak.html   The story of Typhoid Mary https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/typhoid-mary-the-irishwoman-blamed-for-bringing-a-deadly-disease-to-new-york-1.4210229 https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882115755/theres-something-about-mary?t=1629972336921   Two black Australian women who broke lockdown and were persecuted for doing so: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-31/racism-directed-at-women-charged-with-coronavirus-border-fraud/12510910   Books and Articles: Plague and Persecution: The Black Death and Early Modern Witch-Hunts https://dra.american.edu/islandora/object/1011capstones%3A96/datastream/PDF/view   “Fearless Wives and Frightened Shrews”   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceireland    

In this latest episode of A Woman's Place we talk about WHY Irish women chose to 'go into the covent' and become nuns. What were the power dynamics of these structures, what were the conditions of their lives which influenced their decision. We also touch on the notion of 'purity' and why Irish people's identity, especially womanhood, became intrinsically linked with cleanliness and containment.   Our isolationist past politically, is also related to the isolation of the female within the home and the isolation of ourselves as humans from emotion.   This is a great conversation for ideas with a sprinkle of history!    

In this week's episode we look at the history of religious orders in Ireland and how it came about that Religious Orders had so much power in Irish society. We barely scratched the surface of this conversation but this is the first part of a series on the nuns in Ireland. We start off with Catholic Emancipation, through to De Valera and then onto the work in Reformation schools. It gets a little choppy at the end because this conversation is so dense. We hope you get some new understanding about Religious Orders here in Ireland.  As ever contact us through Social Media. We'd love to hear what you think:Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceirelan     Episode Breakdown: 3.00 The Reformation 3.30 We love mass 5.00 Gaffs for the nuns 8.30 Penny for the fancy churches 10.15 Nuns as teachers 11.00 Is there anything to be said for another nun 12.20 A better life 14.00 Changing Gods 16.00 They are so SMRT 17.00 OUT OUT YIZ HERETICS 18.20 Post War Ireland was no craic 19.30 All the lads out for a pray 22.00 What were the parties in Ireland 25.00 A new constitution 28.00 15,000 nuns  30.30 Who are the nuns 32.45 The first asylum 36.40 Irish Institutions were the gold standard 40.00 Why were children admitted 52.00 Containing the problem 60.00 Delivery Drivers 64.00 Who were the nuns (getting back on track)  

In Episode 16 we talk you through the Free Britney movement, getting in depth about what exactly conservatorships are in America and here in Ireland. We talk about how other celebrities are subject to this same treatment, how to get one and we discuss the injustice of this practise which is used to control people with 'mental health' issues and more commonly, people with disabilities.    Check out the first part of our mental health series "That Witch Cray" and learn about the history of women's mental health. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2AhNDlHuoYxk9RZGXOPgsc   Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/awomansplaceire and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/awomansplaceireland

In this episode we are back after another hiatus (it's been humid ok?) and we're following up our Violence and Technology episode (13) with a discussion on AI and what surveillance systems are being used for.   Is it to protect you? Or just to control you through surveillance?  And why are the US mad at Tik Tok???   Join us!

In Episode 14 we are discussing technology and taking you ALL the way back to the invention of papyrus. We detail out how each new discovery has both lead to a burst of creativity but also of destruction and subjugation.   We talk about sails, the radio, the printing press, the stirrup and of course, the internet and how the world has gotten more violent, not less.   We're putting a call out for technology to be democratised and the people who are affected most (the users) to get to decide how it's used.   As always, send us a DM on Instagram or Twitter if you want us to discuss anything in particular. Requests welcome!