Road to Repeal

On 25 May 2018, the Irish people voted by 66.4% to remove the Eighth Amendment, which had enshrined the equal right to life of the pregnant woman and the unborn. This result, to allow for safe, legal access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland, came after years of grassroots campaigning by individuals and organisations across the country to allow people choice in their medical treatment.
This year, on the tenth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar in 2012, photographer Derek Spiers looks back on the journey of #RepealTheEighth, celebrating the activism that propelled this historical campaign. This edition comes with detailed captions by journalist Therese Caherty.,

Photographer Derek Speirs is known for documenting the late 1970s and 1980s in Ireland and is one of the best Irish photographers of the era.

Therese Caherty has worked as a journalist since 1990 in all areas of print journalism. Newspapers include The Irish Times, Irish Press Newspapers, Sunday Business Post, the RTE Guide and, most recently, Dublin Gazette Newspapers and the Phoenix Magazine. She was an assistant editor in women’s publisher Attic Press, now subsumed into Cork University Press.