This morning.
King’s Inn, Dublin 1.
Dublin City Council Culture Company unveiled a new sculpture by artist Jesse Jones inspired by the life of 83 year old writer, journalist and activist Máirin de Burca and entitled ‘The Left Arm of Commerce’ . Ms de Burca helped change Irish law to enable women to serve on juries. The sculpture is displayed in King’s Inn.
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Beautifully carved. Many could do with opening up the written version once again.
From the ICCL:
he Right to Bodily Integrity is an unenumerated right, protected under Article 40.3.1 of the Irish Constitution which provides that:- “The State guarantees in its laws to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate the personal rights of the citizen.”
In GLADYS RYAN Plaintiff v. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Defendant (1962. No. 913 P.) it was pronounced that:- “ I understand the right to bodily integrity to mean that no mutilation of the body or any of its members may be carried out on any citizen under authority of the law except for the good of the whole body and that no process which is or may, as a matter of probability, be dangerous or harmful to the life or health of the citizens or any of them may be imposed (in the sense of being made compulsory) by an Act of the Oireachtas.”
Bodily integrity is the inviolability of the physical body and emphasizes the importance of personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination of human beings over their own bodies. In the field of human rights, violation of the bodily integrity of another is regarded as an unethical infringement, intrusive, and possibly criminal.
The ICHR is concerned that the Irish Government may attempt to erode the Right to Bodily Integrity through the introduction of laws or coercive measures which shall require citizens of this State to submit to a programme of mandatory vaccinations in the not too distant future. The ICHR does not consider this to be an unreasonable concern, in part due to the fact that in 2019, then Minister for Health Simon Harris sought advice from the Attorney General as to the legality of introducing mandatory vaccines in the State and also considering that some 11 European countries (namely Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Slovakia) already have mandatory vaccinations programme in place.
The erosion of the Right to Bodily Integrity is of particular concern to the ICHR and it shall work tirelessly in defence of this freedom.
timely and insightful post, W.D.,
thank you.
Why the left arm of commerce?
Beautiful. Why is it a man’s hand though?
And why is it a left-handed, giant, stone man-person to boot?
None of this matters, because you can never get in to Kings Inns anyway.
Its an auxiliary film-studio for BBC period dramas. Always at the filums, they are.
Katherine Zappone’s ma looks well.
In the 1960s Ms de Burca was a member of pre-split Sinn Fein and participated in many protest campaigns, notably DHAC Dublin Housing Action Committee. As an individual she once attended a hotel event where Irish nurses were being recruited for work in South Africa. From the audience she pointed out that under apartheid the nurses would not be serving the needs of black and other non-white disenfranchised South Africans. Outside the Shelbourne Hotel around 1967 she, Tomas MacGiolla [later Workers Party Lord Mayor of Dublin] Sean O’Chionnaith and other Sinn Feiners picketed a dinner being attended by former members of the British armed forces. They were arrested after burning a Union Flag suitably pre-dipped in petrol to ensure felicitous flammability. She used to write for Hibernia magazine and had an occasional article spiked by anti-Workers Party editor John Mulcahy. (The latter had a well publicised run-in with cabinet minister Conor Cruise O’Brien concerning the magazine’s editorial attitude towards ‘the armed struggle’ in Northern Ireland.) There are many things to be said about Mairin de Burca’s varied colourful life work.
Thanks for that Gabby, fascinating stuff.
She was some woman.
I like, well done Jesse :)