The London Irish Women's Centre: A place to speak their minds

MORE Irish women than Irish men emigrated to London in the early 1980s, as revealed in Breaking Ground — The Story of the London Irish Women’s Centre, a documentary that will be screened next Monday at the Cork Film Festival. The 30-year “feminist collective” closed in 2012.

“The organisation was founded by some amazing Irish women, who mostly came to London during the ’80s. They were radical feminists. This idea of people with a particular desire to assess cultural and gender identity in London, at the time, was really interesting to me as a filmmaker and artist,” says the documentary’s director, Michelle Deignan.