Acts of Defiance
Rose Comiskey
Hi Tone Books
English
Hardcover
128 pages
195 x 260 mm
2026
ISBN 9781917445054
The period from the early 1980s to early 1990s was a decade of dissent in Ireland. The Irish women’s movement and the ongoing campaign for reproductive rights were central to this dissent. Irish women were also actively involved in protesting on other fronts including Ronald Reagan’s visit to Ireland and the Dunnes Stores strike against apartheid-era South African goods. Acts of Defiance collects Rose Comiskey’s striking photographs of these protests. The voices of the Irish women who participated in these struggles, both voluntarily and involuntarily, appear alongside the photographs and testify to the power of friendship, community and resilience in the face of injustice and inequality.
The book includes contributions from: Ivana Bacik, Ursula Barry, Caroline Butler, Therese Caherty, Pauline Conroy, Anne Conway, Chrissy Donoghue-Ward, Mary Duffy, Maeve Foreman, Ita Gannon, Marese Hegarty, Mary Hennessey, Ruth Jacob, Carmel Jennings, Freda Keeshan, Carol Lanigan, Anne Maguire, Paula Meehan, Rosemary McCluskey, Maura Molloy, Theresa Mooney, Cris Mulvey, Patricia Prendiville, Mary O’Connell, Deirdre Quinlan, Sue Russell, and Kate Shanahan.
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About the Artist
Rose Comiskey has practiced photography since the 1980s. Her exhibition, Against the Tide, a photographic record of the campaign for reproductive rights in Ireland in the 1980s, is in the Avenue Road Gallery, Portobello, Dublin 8.
https://www.rosecomiskeyphoto.com
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About the Publisher
Hi Tone Books are publishers of high quality books on Irish popular culture and photography. Hi Tone Books is run by Dubliners Garry O’Neill and Niall McCormack.
https://hitonebooks.ie
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