Now lauded after her death, Nell McCafferty paid a very high personal price for her activism
Nell's outspokenness saw her seen as 'difficult' and her life was plagued with loss — of friends, her lover, her job, writes her friend Rosita Sweetman
Nell McCafferty: 'I’d like to also remember the price Nell paid for being outspoken. For being a woman. For being a woman without a man. For being a lesbian. For being working class. Picture: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
The last really good time I had with Nell was when an American artist made a nude portrait of her.
Executed as Nell emerged naked from her bedroom, despite not wearing a stitch, Nell didn’t look naked. She looked like Nell, a little sad, a little quizzical, a little defiant.
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