Name/TitleBooklet: Your Vote Means Everything
About this objectSlim dual-language booklet titled '25th May 2018 / 25ú Bealtaine 2018 - Your Vote Means Everything / Tá Cumhacht Le Do Vóta: The Independent Guide to the Referendum on the Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy'. Produced by the Referendum Commission (An Coimisiún Reifrinn), an independent body set up under the Referendum Act 1998 whose role was to provide accurate and neutral information to the public in advance of a referendum on a proposal to amend the Irish Constitution. Includes a sample ballot paper in the centre pages.
Fully digitised (16 pages)
MakerReferendum Commission
Date Madec.2018
Period2010s
Place MadeIreland, Dublin
Place NotesThe Referendum Commission, 18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 147 x W: 210 mm
Subject and Association Keywordsabortion rights - neutral
Subject and Association KeywordsWomen's healthcare
Subject and Association KeywordsRepeal the 8th Amendment
Subject and Association DescriptionPart of a collection of Repeal the 8th campaign material (for and against) from the Republic of Ireland, gifted to Glasgow Women's Library by a Glasgow-based donor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_of_the_Constitution_of_Ireland:
The Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1983 was an amendment to the Constitution of Ireland which inserted a subsection recognising the equal right to life of the pregnant woman and the unborn. Abortion had been subject to criminal penalty in Ireland since at least 1861; the amendment ensured that legislation or judicial interpretation would be restricted to allowing abortion in circumstances where the life of a pregnant woman was at risk. It was approved by referendum on 7 September 1983 and signed into law on 7 October 1983. In 2018, it was repealed by referendum.
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2018-59-1
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved