Eileen Flynn

Eileen Flynn, teacher sacked in 1982, dies

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THE DEATH has taken place of Wexford school teacher Eileen Flynn,
who became an important figure in the history of the separation between
the Catholic Church and the State. In August 1982 Ms Flynn was
dismissed from her job as an English and history teacher at the Holy
Faith Convent in New Ross, Co Wexford. At the time she was sacked, Ms
Flynn was unmarried with a baby son and was living with the baby's
father, a separated man, Richie Roche.

Irish Times

1982 seems so long ago

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Eileen Flynn, teacher sacked in 1982, dies

Quote :

THE DEATH has taken place of Wexford school teacher Eileen Flynn,
who became an important figure in the history of the separation between
the Catholic Church and the State. In August 1982 Ms Flynn was
dismissed from her job as an English and history teacher at the Holy
Faith Convent in New Ross, Co Wexford. At the time she was sacked, Ms
Flynn was unmarried with a baby son and was living with the baby's
father, a separated man, Richie Roche.

Irish Times

1982 seems so long ago

That's dreadful. The poor things could not marry because of the no divorce law.

I wonder was Mr Roche working and was he sacked?

Kate P wrote:

I wonder was Mr Roche working and was he sacked?

In New Ross in the 1980s, hardly anyone was working after Albatross closed.

Perhaps. But we live in a society that placed women in Magdalene laundries, made women give up their jobs when they got married and blamed women for living a lifestyle flagrantly in conflict with the norms an institution seeks to promote.

I was in a building today working right up to 5.55 when most people had gone and we'd been kept late and I needed to take down certain information that I'd been waiting for all day.Everyone was tired and under pressure and I hadn't been able to get a job done because of an antiquated system which meant I had to wait until when everyone else was finished to get the information I needed. A caretaker, whom I've met before and sort of know from having been there before, wandered up to me and asked me to leave because he didn't get paid beyond six o'clock. Which is fair enough. But he was extremely rude and he didn't so much as whisper to the three men beside me that he wanted to go home. I suppose if I was talking seniority, one of the three men would be at the virtual top of his particular tree and would command a certain amount of respect because of his position. But I was - and still am - livid, at being singled out, I feel, because of my sex. If the man in question had been in my seat, there's no way he would have made the request and he wouldn't have spoken to any man the way he spoke to me.

MrsVotingMachine gets that crap a lot, less now than 10 years ago. She was the first female engineer to ever join an unnamed company. Had to take an awful load of crap. And they didn't even know they were doing it.

It is getting better with time I think, isn't it ?

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

MrsVotingMachine gets that crap a lot, less now than 10 years ago. She was the first female engineer to ever join an unnamed company. Had to take an awful load of crap. And they didn't even know they were doing it.

It is getting better with time I think, isn't it ?

I can well imagine. Generally EvotingMachine we don't know the half of it as we only hear what is said to our faces.

I've never understood it. A man does a job, a woman does a job - either may be good or bad at the job. Working in the British sector off-shore, there were no women on the rigs - because of the "tough working conditions", it was claimed. In the Norwegian sector, we had women roughnecks - which is to say, working on the drill floor doing the most physically demanding job on the rig.

As a result, I find Electro on p.ie positively flabbergasting.

1982, though - we moved to rural Cavan in 1979, from South London....culture shock wasn't in it. It was more like history shock.

Nearly ended upon a rig in 1978, from your description nearly was close enough.

ibis wrote:

I've never understood it. A man does a job, a woman does a job - either may be good or bad at the job. Working in the British sector off-shore, there were no women on the rigs - because of the "tough working conditions", it was claimed. In the Norwegian sector, we had women roughnecks - which is to say, working on the drill floor doing the most physically demanding job on the rig.

As a result, I find Electro on p.ie positively flabbergasting.

1982, though - we moved to rural Cavan in 1979, from South London....culture shock wasn't in it. It was more like history shock.

There is still a leaky boundary between secular and religious control. I guess that Eileen Flynn's wages were paid by the State, but that didn't help her. The State don't admit to responsibility for the educational institutions that they fund.

cactus flower wrote:

ibis wrote:

I've never understood it. A man does a job, a woman does a job - either may be good or bad at the job. Working in the British sector off-shore, there were no women on the rigs - because of the "tough working conditions", it was claimed. In the Norwegian sector, we had women roughnecks - which is to say, working on the drill floor doing the most physically demanding job on the rig.

As a result, I find Electro on p.ie positively flabbergasting.

1982, though - we moved to rural Cavan in 1979, from South London....culture shock wasn't in it. It was more like history shock.

There is still a leaky boundary between secular and religious control. I guess that Eileen Flynn's wages were paid by the State, but that didn't help her. The State don't admit to responsibility for the educational institutions that they fund.

As demonstrated last year when schoold board of management members faced legal problems and Ms. Hannafin indicated it was not a DoEducation issue, it was a Catholic School Managers Association (Church) issue.