#also im including the ban on tcd because it makes me laugh that you had to seek permission from your bishop to go to uni

[tiarnanabhfainni]

timeline of significant events in the republic of ireland because sometimes it shocks me how recent some of these things were

1970 - catholic church lifts the ban on attending trinity college

1973 - abolishment of the bar on married women working in the civil service

1977 - abolishment of the marriage bar in the private sector

1979 - first female cabinet minister (in the dáil after the 1937 constitution)

1985 - legalisation of contraception

1990 - criminalisation of spousal rape

1990 - first female president

1993 - decriminalisation of homosexuality

1996 - legalisation of divorce

1996 - last magdalene laundry closes

2009 - passage of the civil partnership act for same-sex couple

2015 - legalisation of same-sex marriage

2015 - passage of the gender recognition act

2018 - legalisation of abortion

2019 - removal of legally required four-year waiting period for divorce

#tw rape mention #ireland #this is a noncomplete list of things that i just remember occasionally #*incomplete #leave me gobsmacked every time #also im including the ban on tcd because it makes me laugh that you had to seek permission from your bishop to go to uni #and by laugh i mean vibrate with rage