Claire Keegan
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550 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 21 Jun
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The Italians, the French, the Spanish, the Catholicism there, I don't think it took away from the sensualities of life the way that it did here in Ireland.
And so for her to come here and court an Irishman and almost marry him was for me an opportunity to show what our misogyny looked like.
To an outsider.
No, I surely did.
I really wanted to get out.
It felt like a place where you couldn't shine.
That you were a second class citizen.
I mean, girls, for example, in mass, we weren't allowed to serve on the altar because you were dirty, you know.
And I just always felt that I needed to get out and see what life was like elsewhere and if it was as bad elsewhere.
I think I was tired from the time I was a small child of seeing how females were treated like second-class citizens.
And, you know, marital rape was legal here until 1990.
I just couldn't understand really why anybody would go to a church and sign a document to say you can do that to me and then you make yourself into a second class citizen in your own home for the rest of your life.
So, no, it was...
parochial, hugely backward.
And also in the 1980s, we had the highest unemployment in Western Europe.
We just didn't really have a chance.
And contraception was illegal until 1985.
That's crazy.
Oh, I didn't find it much changed.
I came back in 1992.
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