The classic 1953 documentary film All My Babies features the life and work of Mary Coley, a legendary African-American “granny” […]
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The classic 1953 documentary film All My Babies features the life and work of Mary Coley, a legendary African-American “granny” […]
After the body of twenty-five-year-old Dublin woman Lizzie O’Neill, also known as “Honor Bright,” was found in June 1925, Irish […]
On the evening of April 17, 1956, thirty-three-year-old Helen O. visited nurse Mamie Cadden at 17 Hume Street, Dublin, for […]
A Tisket a Tasket, Three Little Fishies, Baa Baa Black Sheep — these nursery rhymes were an integral part of […]
Citizens of the Republic of Ireland will vote on a referendum on May 25, 2018 to potentially overturn the state’s […]
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in […]
Traveling through Ireland in 1909, writer Robert Lynd described “a strange crying—almost a lamentation” that one might hear “on some […]
Before the age of Facebook and parenting blogs, how did women exchange knowledge and beliefs about reproduction? Without What to […]
In late 2012 the Irish Times and National Museum of Ireland selected the Roman Catholic First Communion dress as one […]
Walking home from school on a frigid day in January 1984, two Irish boys came across a shocking scene: in […]