Hi there, I wrote this piece for TheJournal.ie on why I'm voting No in the #CareRef this Friday and why this is so important. If you are undecided or feel confused by the discourse - as many have said they are - please give it a read. Thanks thejournal.ie/readme/orla-ti…

FROM THE ARCHIVE Caelainn Hogan writing in NUMBER 53 | AUTUMN 2013, which also features work by Mark O’Connell, Rob Doyle, Adrian Duncan +++
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Wonderful piece by Caelainn Hogan ontheditch.com/without-consen…

My mum has Irish birth cert with A parents as mother & father + a correct English one She was ‘legally adopted’ (though coercion is not consent) meaning her illegal birth cert reg is perpetually ignored. This important piece is by ⁦Caelainn Hogan⁩ ontheditch.com/without-consen…

I still can’t quite get over that the way you find out where your brother’s resting place is through a public government report & not through, I don’t know, Bessborough or the Commission or even the hospital.

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥

As someone who started breaking stories on illegal adoptions and birth registrations in 2010 and is still at it - this piece from The Ditch and Caelainn Hogan is on the money. Dept continues to claim, falsely, that evidence of SPG illegality only emerged in 2018.

#ThroughHerEyes
'With the Irish state sitting on a budget surplus of around €16bn this year, the government still voted this summer to exclude around 24,000 mother and baby institution survivors from redress.'
👏👏 Caelainn Hogan
Why aren't we up in arms?
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By Caelainn Hogan Read how the State & religious has let down those who did & didn’t survive Ireland’s #motherandbabyhomes /institutions. #adoption

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'While a National Centre for Research and Remembrance is developed on the site of the last Magdalene Laundry, a survivor of that institution I know is homeless today without any justice for the abuses she experienced.'

Important piece by Caelainn Hogan

From State Failures

'The state downplays endemic illegality within the religious-run adoption system, facilitated by those in positions of power.'

'I saw what the nuns and priests were capable of and how they controlled people.'

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Republic of Shame by Caelainn Hogan continues to be the number one read I suggest to everyone looking to learn about the history of the laundries and Irelands complicity in the trauma of our women.

'Mifepristone came into the world with a fight.' Caelainn Hogan reports on the history of the abortion pill—and the informal networks working to get it to women across the world: thedial.world/issue-1/aborti…

Wild to see the religious right claiming the church values women. There was an asylum for ‘fallen women’ open until 2006! Currently reading Republic of Shame.

'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here”

Margaret Atwood

Gardaí facilitating the eviction even though tenant has confirmation from RTB and Treshold that this is an illegal eviction and landlords men were violent towards tenant.

A force for change and equality. So glad to celebrate Dr. Orla Tinsley and their important voice today, named an honorary Doctor of Literature for their work fighting for health rights and trans rights. Their writing is proof that, as they said today, 'words are transformational'.

Take a moment to read some of the #NeverGivingUp posts for a glimpse of the resilience of victims & survivors who were betrayed by the British govt today. The passage of the Legacy Bill is such a retrograde, regressive step that will cause real harm to people & our peace process.