Máirín De Burca : Activist, Feminist, Socialist

As a leading member of Sinn Fein in the 1960s and 1970s De Burca was opposed to the use of physical force in Northern Ireland and fought to focus her party on social and economic issues.. When Sinn Fein split in 1970 she moved with the more radical wing of the party. and continued to oppose the use of physical force..

After her political career ended De Burca worked as a journalist and continued to campaign for women's rights and supported efforts to introduce contraception, divorce and abortion into Ireland.

Mairin De Burca has been a committed political and social campaigner for the past 60 years. Her story is told now in this first biography of a remarkable life.