Lynn Ruane

Описание: Lynn Ruane speaking at Saoise | Freedom on Easter Monday at Kilmainham Gaol. Saoirse was bright to you by The Trailblazery with the kind support of Creative Ireland, OPW , Dublin City Council + Catapult

Lynn Ruane is a recently elected independent senator, serving in Seanad Éireann and is a former president of Trinity College Dublin's Students' Union. An early school leaver & single mother of two from Tallaght, she gained access to Trinity College in 2011 through the Trinity Access Programme as a mature student. Prior to her return to education, she worked for fifteen years as an addiction programme developer and community worker in west Dublin. As a senator, Lynn plans to be a passionate and vocal defender of education, a voice for the underrepresented in Irish politics and a challenger of inequality in all its forms.

“If we fight for something, we fight for the thing we love. When we fight against something, we fight against the thing we hate” Simon Sinek

What does freedom mean for us as individuals, as nations and as world citizens living in extreme times? What are we fighting for in a #post-truth culture?
Freedom invites a host of artists, musicians, performers, activists and thinkers to decode the burning questions at the heart of cultural revolution and evolution. These “freedom fighters” set out to navigate many perspectives from the personal to the political and beyond.

Participants included Colm O’Gorman {Amnesty International Ireland} Sunny Jacobs {Human Rights Activist}, Raoul Martinez {Philosopher, Artist, Author and filmmaker- Creating Freedom}, Lynne Ruane {Educational Activist and Independent Politician} Ailbhe Smyth {Feminist & Activist}, Mary Kate O’ Flannagan {Award Winning Writer, Grand Slam Champion storyteller of the Moth}, Razan Ibraheen {Syrian Journalist, Irish Tatler International Woman of the Year} Diarmiud Lyng {Hurler and Youth Facilitator},Tavengwa Tavengwa {Director in Ernst & Young}
Radie Peat {Musician Performer}, Eric Mingus {Musician Performer} and Tonnta Music Ensemble.

Saoirse was brought to you by The Trailblazery with the kind support of Creative Ireland, Dublin City Council, The OPW and Catapult.