My Irish-American grandmother, Catherine Alexis Holihan, approves this message. (😎)
I was a student at Trinity College in Dublin in 77 & 78, and spoke at great length with many of those women leaders in both the Republic and the North of Ireland. They were done sacrificing their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers and lives to war and ter…
My Irish-American grandmother, Catherine Alexis Holihan, approves this message. (😎)
I was a student at Trinity College in Dublin in 77 & 78, and spoke at great length with many of those women leaders in both the Republic and the North of Ireland. They were done sacrificing their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers and lives to war and terrorism. They stepped into the leadership vacuum and persisted. Same as we need to continue to do here in this country.
Those women, particularly my grandmother, inspire me every day to do just a little more. For my daughters, my nieces and nephews, for my friends who collect SS and rely on Medicare, hell, for the planet. The UN report on the climate that was just released is terrifying. Time to do more. Time to lead with values that protect and nourish.
Sheila, got my PhD at Trinity in 2000. Mary Robinson handed me my diploma! I spent the 90's there-- Celtic Tiger days and Cease fire and Peace Accord days. It was a transition time for sure. Had an incendiary device go off in my face in a lower level shop at Christmas in the early
90's and went through border checkpoints travelling to the North. Toward the end of the decade the Northern Ireland Tourism Board opened an office just outside the west gate of Trinity on Nassau St. I will hate to see violence start up again with the Brexit hard border problems. Irish women are much stronger than Irish men-- in my experience!
My Irish-American grandmother, Catherine Alexis Holihan, approves this message. (😎)
I was a student at Trinity College in Dublin in 77 & 78, and spoke at great length with many of those women leaders in both the Republic and the North of Ireland. They were done sacrificing their husbands, sons, fathers, brothers and lives to war and terrorism. They stepped into the leadership vacuum and persisted. Same as we need to continue to do here in this country.
Those women, particularly my grandmother, inspire me every day to do just a little more. For my daughters, my nieces and nephews, for my friends who collect SS and rely on Medicare, hell, for the planet. The UN report on the climate that was just released is terrifying. Time to do more. Time to lead with values that protect and nourish.
Sheila, got my PhD at Trinity in 2000. Mary Robinson handed me my diploma! I spent the 90's there-- Celtic Tiger days and Cease fire and Peace Accord days. It was a transition time for sure. Had an incendiary device go off in my face in a lower level shop at Christmas in the early
90's and went through border checkpoints travelling to the North. Toward the end of the decade the Northern Ireland Tourism Board opened an office just outside the west gate of Trinity on Nassau St. I will hate to see violence start up again with the Brexit hard border problems. Irish women are much stronger than Irish men-- in my experience!
God bless your granny Holihan!
Governance is women's work. Amen.
So glad, Sheila, that your Grandmother would approve!