Status Updates From Ireland: The Passenger

Essay 1 by two writers of different generations, writing about the effect of the Church on the lives of women, then and now, and the big changes that are finally beginning to come, as a younger generation begins to vote and insists on change, saying no to the silence that has reigned and the abuses tolerated.

Essay 2 an intriguing essay on the history and current status of "the bog" and the peat lands of Ireland.