From the earliest African arrivals on Irish shores, Black people have played an important role in shaping Irish society. Although there aren’t very many Black people living in Ireland today, they ...

Ireland is no country for the marginalized, but then that’s not news and hasn’t been for some considerable time, and the most marginalized are those with a disability. But care and attention for the ...

Jennifer Erkulwater does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Ways of thinking about disability differ across cultures and can be classified into three general models: the moral model, the medical model, and the social model (Olkin & Pledger, 2003). Under the ...

“I like to think I want to be able to walk to my grave and remember which one I picked”, says Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny. The principal investigator of Tilda, Ireland’s largest adult population ...

A Lisburn parent carer has been announced a winner at a national awards event for her outstanding grassroots campaign to ...

Judy Heumann’s death last year was deeply felt in the disability community. Often called “the mother” of the disability rights movement, her activism had a lasting impact on millions of Americans. Yet ...