Tom Killalea

“Now the ivory towers will be 'visitor centres'
visited mostly during the long winters
by sea-birds — cormorant, puffin, kittiwake —
and their quartz lenses' own impersonal stroke
while automatically their hard gem-like flames
circulating at night unseen in empty rooms
preside over global warming and polar melt-down,
over Bill Long's Marie-Celeste effect and 'sonar-singing dark'.”
― Derek Mahon, The Yellow Book

“Ireland is different from the other countries that introduced institutional change in the judicial selection system. Policy changed occurred quickly and without the debate that took place in other countries. Institutional change to judicial selection processes was introduced although there was little evidence of political commitment to such change. The trigger for institutional change was the need to find a solution to a political crisis that might prevent the coalition government from breaking up.”
― Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, The Politics of Judicial Selection in Ireland

“When women approached the uppermost ranks at their companies, skepticism about suitability for leadership suddenly came to the fore. Their performance wasn't typically in question, but their fit for leadership was.”
― Colleen Ammerman, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

“If men tend to see structural barriers as minimal to nonexistent, is it any wonder that they feel little incentive to advocate for women?”
― Colleen Ammerman, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work