Nell McCafferty (born 1944) is an Irish journalist, playwright, civil rights campaigner, and feminist. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Feminism is a discourse that involves various movements theories, and Philosophies which are concerned with the issue of Gender difference, advocate In her journalistic work she has written for The Irish Press, The Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune and Hot Press and The Village Voice. The Irish Press was an Irish Newspaper published by Irish Press plc between September 5 1931, on the eve of the 1931 Kilkenny v Cork The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet news paper launched in the late 1850s. The Sunday Tribune is an Irish Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper published by Tribune Newspapers plc Hot Press is a fortnightly Music and political Magazine founded in 1977 based in Dublin, Ireland. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills.
McCafferty was born in Derry to Hugh and Lily McCafferty, and spent her early years in the Bogside section of Derry — a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city, which was home to the majority of its Catholic population. The Bogside is a neighbourhood outside the city walls of Derry, Northern Ireland. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Although her family were not wealthy, she had a comfortable upbringing and entered Queen's University Belfast, where she took a degree in Arts. Queen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
After a brief spell as a substitute English teacher in Northern Ireland, McCafferty took up a post with The Irish Times. The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet news paper launched in the late 1850s. It was her career in journalism, commentating on Northern Irish life and Republican politics that brought her to public fame, and her outspoken attitudes on abortion, sexuality, feminism and contraception (in what was then a conservative nation) earned her a certain amount of notoriety. Irish republicanism (Poblachtánachas is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a single independent Republic In over 30 years as a public commentator whose views on social change, the Irish identity and society are frequently sought, she is altogether one of Ireland's most familiar, most respected and most controversial journalists.
In 1990, McCafferty won a Jacob's Award for her reports on the 1990 World Cup for RTÉ Radio 1's The Pat Kenny Show. The Jacob's Awards were instituted in December 1962 as the first Irish television awards RTÉ Radio 1 ( Irish: RTÉ Raidió 1) is the principal radio channel of Irish Patrick Kenny (born January 29, 1948) is the current presenter of Ireland's The Late Late Show. McCafferty lives in Ranelagh, an area of Dublin. Ranelagh ( Irish Raghnallach) is a residential area and urban village on the south side of Dublin, Ireland.
McCafferty published her autobiography, Nell, in 2004. In it, she explores her upbringing in a deeply sectarian and later war-riddled Derry, her relationship with her parents, her fears about being gay (she is an outspoken lesbian),[1] the joy of finding a domestic haven with the love of her life, the Irish writer Nuala O'Faolain, and the pain of losing it. In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. A lesbian is a Woman who is romantically or sexually attracted only to other women Nuala O'Faolain (1 March 1940 9 May 2008 was an Irish journalist TV producer book reviewer teacher and author
The Irish Times wrote of McCafferty:
"Nell's distinctive voice, both written and spoken, has a powerful and provocative place in Irish society. "[2]
Bibliography
- A Woman to Blame: The Story of the Kerry Babies
- Peggy Deery: A Derry Family at War
- Nell (Penguin, 2004)
References
- ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (November 22, 2004), “Just call me Nell”, The Guardian, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1356491,00.html>. The Kerry Babies case is an unsolved murder case dating from 1984 in Kerry, Ireland, that dominated the Irish headlines for some months during that Events 498 - Kofi Aseidu- After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Retrieved on 2007-11-30
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