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The Women's Podcast: Does feminism begin at home?

In this live recording at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, mothers and daughters share their views on feminism

Jennifer Ryan
Thu Apr 13 2017 - 11:00

The latest episode of The Women’s Podcast is a celebration of mothers, daughters, and feminism, inspired by the Rough Magic musical The Train.

The Train is the story of the remarkable media coup orchestrated by the Irish Women's Liberation Movement in 1971 that changed the social landscape of Ireland. Determined to challenge the laws of the Irish State, a group of 47 trailblazing women take a train to Belfast and return to Dublin with forbidden contraceptives, condoms and the pill - except of course it was aspirin masquerading as the pill.

The podcast was recorded on Wednesday evening upstairs at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin ahead of that night's performance.

You can catch The Train this weekend in Dublin, or at The Mac in Belfast April 19-23.

Abbey Theatre