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at the beginning of the 1980s. This was a space where women came together to discuss issues which were affecting them including: work, sex, relationships, childcare, discrimination and violence. This was a discussion group with a strong cultural ethos and they invited women writers, poets, and
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Smyth was born in Dublin in 1946, the eldest of 6 children. Smyth married in the early 1970s, and later separated. She had her daughter in 1977, and cites her status as "illegitimate" as motivation to become involved in political activism. She divorced once it became legal in
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artists to come and talk about interesting projects that they were involved with at the time. In 1990 Smyth established the Women's
Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at UCD and was head of Women's Studies where she stayed until 2006.
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Smyth began lecturing in the French department at the age of 21. During this time, she became increasingly more politically aware and began following the global women's movement, which led her to set up the
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She was a co-director of the
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Smyth was nominated by the
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for over 10 years and in 2015 she received the 'Lifetime
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