Clodagh Finn: Mother’s Day Gaza vigil highlights Irish discomfort with female protest and dissent
Irish activist Maud Gonne MacBride with the writer Miss Barry Delany and Mary MacSwiney at Mountjoy Prison, during the hunger strike.
Light years ago — last Sunday — I felt a mix of inspiration and admiration watching Mothers Against Genocide gather outside the Dáil to highlight the slaughter of thousands of children — more than 14,500, according to Unicef — in Gaza.
It was, I thought, a very worthwhile way to mark Mother’s Day. Here was a group of women showing that mothers, so often straitjacketed into the domestic sphere, can be political too.
