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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 21d
It’s here! We’re elated to share that WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell has arrived in the world.

Learn about the story behind this groundbreaking feminist movement.

🔗 Order at bit.ly/WTF-Happened or bookstores nationwide
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 9h
ALL WELCOME TODAY
to the launch of

WTF HAPPENED
#WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre

by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell

🗓️ TODAY Wednesday, 8 October, 6.30pm
National Library of Ireland

RSVP [email protected]
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 1d
A special afternoon talking about activism, compliant, feminism & movements that continue to shape us

Thanks to hosts Dublin Theatre Festival & Abbey Theatre, panel chair Emma Dabiri & panelists Sarah Durcan Lian Bell Sara Ahmad & Catriona Crowe

WTF Happened is available in bookshops nationwide
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 1d
See you today at the Abbey Theatre @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social 🎭
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 2d
TOMORROW at 12.30pm join us at @abbeytheatre.bsky.social as part of @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social for ‘Complaining for Good’ with UCD Press author Sarah Durcan, Sara Ahmed, and Catriona Crowe. Chaired by Emma Dabiri.

🎟️ Tickets are €10 and available here: dublintheatrefestival.ie/event/compla...
COMPLAINING FOR GOOD — ACTIVISM, FEMINISM AND HOW TO AFFECT CHANGE - Dublin Theatre Festival
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 2d
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 2d
WEDNESDAY NIGHT – all are welcome to the official launch of WTF Happened: #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell at NLI (@nlireland.bsky.social), 6.30pm.

✉️ RSVP [email protected]

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at both events.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 2d
TOMORROW at 12.30pm join us at @abbeytheatre.bsky.social as part of @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social for ‘Complaining for Good’ with UCD Press author Sarah Durcan, Sara Ahmed, and Catriona Crowe. Chaired by Emma Dabiri.

🎟️ Tickets are €10 and available here: dublintheatrefestival.ie/event/compla...
COMPLAINING FOR GOOD — ACTIVISM, FEMINISM AND HOW TO AFFECT CHANGE - Dublin Theatre Festival
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 2d
A smiling crowd of feminists gathered outside of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin for the #WakingTheFeminists public meeting on 12 November 2015. Captured by Fiona Morgan. A photo so good we had to include it not only on the cover of WTF Happened but also as a double-page spread inside of the book.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 3d
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Join Sara Ahmed, Emma Dabiri and Catriona Crowe and I, Tuesday 7 Oct @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social for Complaining For Good at 12:30. Still a few tickets available. I’ll be talking about WTF Happened, the book I wrote with @lianbell.bsky.social from @ucdpress.bsky.social
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 3d
The proud legacy of Waking the Feminists. Thank you Aoife Barry for this thorough engagement and warm support for our new book WTF Happened in today's Sunday Times Culture Magazine 📚👌👏

WTF Happened #wakingthefeminists is in bookshops nationwide now and at www.ucdpress.ie
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 4d
Order WTF Happened: #WakingtheFeminsits and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre at the link to our website below or in bookshops nationwide.

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WTF HAPPENED
Great theatre changes the atmosphere in the room and reshapes how we see our lives. Great campaigning changes our vision of society and reshapes our future. When the Abbey Theatre’s 2016 centenary pro...
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 4d
'This book is a fascinating account of the events in 2015/16 which lit a feminist bomb under Irish theatre ...'

Our thanks to Katy Hayes and @independent.ie for this thorough review of WTF Happened.

📰 Read in print nationwide or online: www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

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Katy Hayes @katyhayze.bsky.social · 4d
Also, my review of Waking The Feminists book from @ucdpress.bsky.social in today's Irish Independent @independent.ie . Lovely stormy day to go out to Coffee Shop and #buyapaper
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 5d
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 5d
ALL WELCOME
to the launch of

WTF HAPPENED
#WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre

by Sarah Durcan with Lian Bell

🗓️ Wednesday, 8 October, 6.30pm
National Library of Ireland

RSVP [email protected]
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
@dublintheatrefest.bsky.social @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @sarahdurcan.bsky.social #IrishTheatre #TheatreEvents #DublinTheatreFestival2025 #FeministActivism #BookEvents
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
Next Tuesday! Don't miss out – few tickets are left.

Join us during Dublin Theatre Festival for a panel discussion featuring WTF Happened author Sarah Durcan

🗓️ 7 Oct
Abbey Theatre, Abbey Stage
€10
90 mins

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🔗 Order a copy: www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
Preorder at www.ucdpress.ie

Available in bookshops nationwide from 31 October
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
In both cases it inspired a willingness to fight to the death to overthrow or protect the status quo.

It was above all this explosive combination of hope and fear that brought about Ireland’s bloody summer.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
For Irish radicals who sought the overthrow of the existing system, the war offered the realistic hope of achieving separation from Britain; for those on the other side, French invasion conjured up fear of dispossession and terror.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
– a world in which Catholics would have the same rights as Protestants and the poor would be relieved of the heavy burdens of tithes and taxes.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
Running in parallel with these fears there were however also great hopes: many of those who fought in 1798 did so in the hope of a better world for themselves and their children ...
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
The mobilising effect of fear was perhaps best shown by the fact that the rebellion was at its most intense in Wexford ­– a county that had yet to experience the worst excesses of military violence.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
Such fears were immeasurably heightened as rumours spread through the countryside that marauding bands of soldiers, Orangemen, or rebels were coming to torture or kill.
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UCD Press @ucdpress.bsky.social · 6d
For some it was fear: fear of being flogged or murdered by the military; fear of sectarian attacks or, on the loyalist side; fear of a radical revolution that threatened their lives and property.
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