Ep 208 The 1983 Abortion Referendum: Letters to the Irish Times

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Recorded16 Apr 2018

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In today's episode, we go time travelling back to the Ireland of 1983, to the unusually hot summer and autumn of that year, in the run up to the contentious abortion referendum. You will hear letters to the editor of the Irish Times during the campaign, and in its aftermath, from the referendum that resulted in the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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