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Sinéad Kennedy


Sinéad Kennedy teaches in the English Department at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is co-editor of The Abortion Papers Volume 2 (Cork University Press, 2015) and co-founder of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, a coalition of 100-plus organizations that campaigns for abortion access in Ireland. The Irish abortion rights victory: not a “quiet revolution”

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