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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Feminist responses toward the women in Armagh were polarized: either they felt they must support them as a women’s rights issue, or they felt that they could not support them due to their nationalist beliefs. The […]
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Republican responses toward the Armagh protests were complicated and varied in their support for the women. Within the Republican tradition is deeply embedded the age-old idea of “Mother Ireland,” the fictitious […]
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Catholics generally tended to do what some feminist groups couldn’t, and set aside the matter of republicanism entirely when assessing the Armagh women. Unlike the feminists who were objecting to the inequality […]
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Within Northern Ireland and indeed within the international stage as a whole, there were extreme and polarized reactions to the 1980 and ’81 hunger strikes in the H-Block of Long Kesh. Bobby Sands became an […]
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
Meaghan Dwyer, Katie Senft, Marion R. Casey. 1981 Hunger Strikes: America Reacts. Archives of Irish America. Website. 12/2/14. […]
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 4 months ago
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
Silent Grace (Orla Brady and Cara Seymour) was released theatrically by Guerilla Films in the UK and Ireland. It was Critics Choice in the London Metro and Dublin Hot Press.
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Erin Janke wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 5 months ago
Anorexic
Eavan Boland
Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.
Yes I am torching
her curves and paps and wiles.
They scorch in my self denials.
How she meshed my head
in the half-truths
of her fevers
till I renounced
milk and honey
and the taste of lunch.
I vomited
her hungers.
Now the bitch is burning.
I am starved and curveless.
I am skin and bone.
She has learned her lesson.
Thin as a rib
I turn in sleep.
My dreams probe
a claustrophobia
a sensuous enclosure.
How warm it was and wide
once by a warm drum,
once by the song of his breath
and in his sleeping side.
Only a little more,
only a few more days
sinless, foodless,
I will slip
back into him again
as if I had never been away.
Caged so
I will grow
angular and holy
past pain,
keeping his heart
such company
as will make me forget
in a small space
the fall
into forked dark,
into python needs
heaving to hips and breasts
and lips and heat
and sweat and fat and greed.
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Erin Janke and Rob Doggett are now friends 10 years, 3 months ago
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Rob Doggett and Erin Janke are now friends 10 years, 3 months ago
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Erin Janke joined the group Irish Studies 10 years, 3 months ago
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Erin Janke became a registered member 10 years, 3 months ago