Event Update – 5/9/17

Hi folks! Here is an overview of the programme for our first event on Saturday, 23 September 2017 in the Mansion House, Dublin. IN THEIR NAMES IN OUR TIME 23rd September 2017 11am – 5pm The Mansion House, Dublin PROGRAMME OVERVIEW ... A History of the Independent Living Movement: - Presented using both visual and …

Only One Month To Go!

Hello everybody! Apologies for the radio silence, but rest assured that behind the scenes the By Us With Us team we have been working tirelessly to ensure that our first event is a success! We hope that by now you have received your invite to our event, ‘In Their Names, In Our Time.’ If you …

We Need You to Help Us forward the Independent Living Movement!

Hello everybody! Sarah Fitzgerald here. I apologise that I haven’t blogged here in a really long time – I’ve been slacking off! But now it’s time to pull up my socks and play my part in forwarding the Independent Living Movement. Independent Living Movement? you may well be thinking. What is that? Does it even …

My ‘Brief Encounter’ with Martin Naughton, by Alannah Murray

My name is Alannah Murray, and I met Martin almost to this day (2 April 2017) a year ago. While I’ve been disabled since I was 6 by an auto immune disease not uncommon to Lupus, I had no contact with the disabled community really. I went to a mainstream school, had a regular upbringing …

The West Awakes, and Making Waves in Clare, by Dermot Hayes

In the mid-eighties and up to 1992 I worked in a place that was known locally as  ‘’The Shed’’: Roxton, Corofin County Clare. I am a native of there and from a family of 13 children. My family expected me to remain an invalid at home: and go to mass, with only the annual trip …