Dr Sinead Kennedy
Senior University Tutor; First Year Co-ordinator; MA English Co-ordinator
Biography
Sinéad Kennedy is a Senior University Tutor in English specialising in Marxist theory, gender and sexuality in Irish writing and culture. She completed her doctorate in critical theory and modernism at Maynooth University. Her research interests intersect strongly with her political activism. She was the co-founder, along with Ailbhe Smyth, of the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, a coalition of 100-plus organisations that led the campaign to repeal the Eighth Amendment from the Irish Constitution and ensure abortion access in Ireland. She was an executive member of the Together for Yes: National Civil Society Campaign to Remove the Eighth Amendment from the Constitution where she also served as Head of Research for the campaign.
Book Chapter
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Sinéad Kennedy (2022) 'A Tale of Two Referendums: A comparative study of the Anti-Amendment Campaign and Together for Yes'. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, . [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Sinéad Kennedy (2022) 'Bodies Under the Law: Feminist artistic practice and the struggle to #Repealthe8th'. Eire-Ireland; a journal of Irish studies, . [Full-Text] | |
2018 | Sinéad Kennedy (2018) '“#Repealthe8th”: Ireland, Abortion Access and the movement to remove the eighth amendment'. Antropologia, 5 (2):13-31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14672/ada2018145513-31 [Full-Text] | |
2017 | Sinead Kennedy, Abby Palko, Moynagh Sullivan (2017) 'Special Issue: Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality'. BREAC: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, . [Full-Text] |
Other Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Sinead Kennedy (2016) 'Review: Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland' Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, . | |
2013 | Sinéad Kennedy (2013) 'Marxism and Feminism in an age of neoliberalism' Revista Ga\'ucha de Enfermagem, 2 (7) :5-16. [Link] |
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Sinead Kennedy (2021) ‘Accessing Abortion in Ireland - Meeting the Needs of Every Woman’. National Women Council, . [Link] |
Article
Year | Publication | |
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2018 | Sinéad Kennedy (2018) Fired! Irish women poets and the canon. [Article] [Link] | |
2018 | Sinead Kennedy (2018) Ireland’s Fight for Choice. [Article] [Link] | |
2018 | Sinéad Kennedy (2018) Dublin Feminist Film Festivaland the female gaze. [Article] [Link] | |
2018 | Sinéad Kennedy (2018) The Irish abortion rights victory: not a “quiet revolution”. [Article] [Link] |
Editorial
Year | Publication | |
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2015 | Sinéad Kennedy (2015) Ireland’s Victory for Marriage Equality: The birth of a new political imagination?. [Editorial] [Link] |
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Outreach Activities
Organisation | Type | Description | |
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Together for Yes | Civic Society | Together for Yes was the national civil society campaign to remove the 8th Amendment. [Link] | |
Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment | Civic Society | The Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment was founded in 2013 by Sinéad Kennedy and Ailbhe Smyth and represents over one million people across civil society. It campaigns to repeal the eighth amendment from the Irish constitution in order to respect and protect women's lives, health and choices. In 2018 it joined with the National Women's Council and the Abortion Rights Campaign to form Together for Yes, the national civil society campaign to remove the eighth amendment. [Link] |