Monthly Archives: May 2017

If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Melanie

I promised fun stuff and pretty pictures and I am a woman of my word. The problem was: how do you make Christmas feel like Christmas when you have no local family or Christmas Day-level friends?  When all your other Christmases have … Continue reading →

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When ‘Pro-life’ Is Not Pro Life: The Women’s March, The Sisters of Charity and The National Maternity Hospital

Posted on May 13, 2017 by Melanie

So I thought I’d ease you back into reading the blog by starting with this: the fraught issue of the health and well-being of women and children in historical and contemporary Ireland in relation to medical, educational and social services … Continue reading →

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