Nell McCafferty
| Nell McCafferty | |
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28 March 1944 Derry, Northern Ireland |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer, playwright |
| Nationality | Irish |
Nell McCafferty (born 28 March 1944) is an Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner and feminist. In her journalistic work she has written for The Irish Press, The Irish Times, Sunday Tribune, Hot Press and The Village Voice.
McCafferty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, to Hugh and Lily McCafferty, and spent her early years in the Bogside area of Derry. She was admitted to Queen's University Belfast (QUB), where she took a degree in Arts. After a brief spell as a substitute English teacher in Northern Ireland and a stint on an Israeli kibbutz, she took up a post with The Irish Times.
McCafferty was a founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. McCafferty's journalistic writing on women and women's rights reflected her beliefs on the status of women in Irish society. In 1970, she wrote a piece for the Irish Times on what Women's Liberation meant to her:
In 1971, she travelled to Belfast with other members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement in order to protest the prohibition of the importation and sale of contraceptives in the Republic of Ireland.
After the disintegration of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, McCafferty remained active in other women's rights groups, as well as focusing her journalism on women's rights. Her most notable work is her coverage of the Kerry Babies Case, which is recorded in her book, A Woman to Blame.
Irish author Colm Tóibín commended Nell McCafferty's impact on Ireland as a journalist and a feminist:
She contributed the piece "Coping with the womb and the border" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan.
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