Orla Egan’s graphic memoir recalls activist days in Cork 

Diary of An Activist recalls life in the 1980s and Egan's involvement in campaigns for gay rights and other issues 
Orla Egan’s graphic memoir recalls activist days in Cork 

Orla Egan, Diary of an Activist

Cork social activist Orla Egan has created a record of the left-wing movement in the city during the 80s in an attractive illustrated graphic memoir, Diary of An Activist, published by Cork City Libraries.

Egan, the youngest of six, became a vegetarian at the age of twelve, influenced by a sibling. Also at that young age in 1978, she joined the Irish Anti Nuclear Movement in response to government plans to build a nuclear power plant at Carnsore Point in Co Wexford. 

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