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Rosie de Riveter poster 'We can do it!'

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8 March 2017

Calls for referendum to remove 'women's role within the home' provision from Irish constitution

Posters in Dublin before the referendum on the 25th Amendment in 2002 (photo credit: David Sleator)

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8 February 2017

Op-ed: Can Ireland reconcile conflicting views in the constitutional debate on abortion?

Pro-life and pro-choice protesters side by side (photo credit: Irish Examiner)

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27 October 2016

Irish government sets out timeline for possible abortion constitutional referendum

Minister Joe McHugh pictured with Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny (photo credit: The Irish Post)

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20 July 2016

Irish constitutional referendum to allow diaspora to vote in presidential elections likely

Pro and anti-abortion campaigners demonstrate (photo credit: Irish Examiner)

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10 June 2016

Op-ed: Ireland needs constitutional referendum as UN committee finds abortion law indefensible

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny (photo credit: Life Site)

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12 May 2016

New Irish government commits to citizens’ review of abortion ban

Photo credit: Centre for Research on Globalization

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26 February 2016

Op-ed: The Irish National Election and the Politics of Abortion

Photo credit: Belfast Telegraph

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16 February 2016

Ireland: Election focuses attention on eighth amendment enshrining abortion law

Irish government rejects enshrining rights of ethnic minorities in the Constitution

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14 January 2016

Irish government rejects enshrining rights of ethnic minorities in the Constitution

Irish couple Orla Howard and Dr Grainne Courtney exchanged rings at their wedding in New York in 2013 and from Monday, their marriage is automatically recognised by the authorities in their own country (photo credit: BBC News)

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17 November 2015

Same-sex marriage now legal in Ireland following May referendum

LGBT rights advocates supporting marriage equality during the Milan Parade (Photo credit: Yuri Guaiana/Certi Diritti)

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20 February 2015

Same-sex marriage rejected under Italian constitution

(photo credit: blasphemy.ie)

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19 February 2015

Irish Minister calls for referendum to remove constitutional ban on blasphemy

At the Convention on the Constitution in February 2014. Photo: Cyril Byrne

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26 January 2015

Ireland: Only two proposals for constitutional referendum

The Irish Dail (Credit: Justin Pickard, CC BY SA 2.0)

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15 January 2015

Ireland: Can a constitutional convention offer real and radical change?

Joan Burton

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24 July 2014

Ireland: Burton calls for five-yearly review of Constitution