Shift

Date:

11/2015

REF:

NIPC/PER/BOX1(77)

Scope and Content:

Magazine titled, Shift: A Magazine for Writing, issue 3, November 2015. The first themed issue contains a variety of creative outputs about Women. Contents include: Poems: “Zelda” by Micheál McCann; “Esther” by Stephanie Conn; “For the love of a woman,” by Joseph Rasef Currie; “Washing” by Owen McGuire; “Women Walking” by Mary Johnson; “Black is the colour,” by Siobhán Livingstone; “It’s a man’s world,” by Fiona McCallion; “Ode to Plath,” by Tom Buron; “Brónagh’s Rant,” by Brónagh Sharkey; “She is a suffragette” by Strider Marcus Jones; “Cista,” by Helen Clarke; “About a woman,” by Anette Roller; “Winter Clothes” by Owen McGuire; “Vogel-sang,” Julieann Campbell; and “Bedtime Stories,” by Jenni Doherty Article: “1996:2015” an abridged reprint of an article titled “The Case for Abortion Law Reform in Northern Ireland” by Alliance for Choice co-foundress Geraldine Quigley. Originally written for Fingerpost magazine for International Women’s Day 1996 Short stories: “Relocation” by Clare Savage; “Eight and a half minutes,” by Siobhan Curley; “The Cure,” by James Hutcheon; Ian Cusack: Broken eggs; “Patricia,” by Phyllis McKenna; “The improver,” by Áine McCarron; “Bias Binding,” by Geraldine Quigley Photography: Photographs by Mickey Rooney, Eamonn Brown, and John Quigley.