Book description
A fascinating story of love and campaigning for equality and social
justice. When Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan met it was
love. It has been love through twenty-seven years together. But that
love had consequences which brought this couple to the High Court, and
beyond. They met at Boston College. Returning to Ireland, their
relationship had to be kept secret. Jobs were at stake, and elevation
to positions of authority could be jeopardised. What would happen if
one of them died? Only a married couple received the support of the
state in such circumstances. Ireland rejected their Canadian marriage
and they had to make a huge decision: to go public and fight or to
stay quiet and suffer the consequences? Here they offer their deeply
personal story Â- out loud for all to read. Foreword by Archbishop
Desmond Tutu
ANN LOUISE GILLIGAN, PhD was appointed to the staff of St Patrick's
College, Drumcondra, in 1976, and has worked in the area of teacher
education at undergraduate and post-graduate level for the past thirty
years. She established and directed its Educational Disadvantage Centre,
and has lectured and published on the philosophy of the imagination,
philosophies of difference and educational equality. In 2001, she was
appointed by the Irish Minister for Education to establish and chair the
National Education Welfare Board. Ann Louise loves travel, wine, jazz
and golf on a good day. KATHERINE ZAPPONE, PhD is an independent public
policy consultant and educator. Appointed by the Minister for Justice,
she has served as a Commissioner on the Irish Human Rights Commission
since 2001. She taught Practical Theology in Trinity College Dublin, has
lectured widely throughout Europe, Canada, Australia and the United
States and has written extensively on matters related to ethics,
spirituality, equality and human rights. She learned the art of public
policy as Chief Executive of the National Women's Council of Ireland.
Katherine loves fast cars, singing and good food, which she walks off in
the Dublin hills
