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===Ireland===
The [[Irish Women's Liberation Movement]] was an alliance of a group of Irish women who were concerned about the sexism within Ireland both socially and legally. They first began after a meeting in [[Dublin|Dublin's]] Bewley's Cafe on [[Grafton Street]] in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.tcd.ie/history/contesting/Undergrad/Module15/document6.pdf|title = Irish Women's Liberation Movement|publisher = Trinity College, Dublin}}</ref> They later had their meetings in [[Margaret Gaj]]'s restaurant on [[Baggot Street]] every Monday.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.independent.ie/world-news/the-matriarch-who-served-up-stew-and-social-progress-26747770.html|title = The Matriarch Who Served up Stew and Social Progress|last = Sweetman|first = Rosita|date = 7 February 2011|work = Independent|access-date = 21 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = The Liffey Press Mondays at Gaj's: The Story of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement|url = http://www.theliffeypress.com/mondays-at-gaj-s-the-story-of-the-irish-women-s-liberation-movement.html|website = The Liffey Press|access-date = 2015-08-21}}</ref> The group was short-lived, but influential.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=9FY2673767236&site=ehost-live|title = Celebrating Sisterhood|date = 26 May 2010|work = Irish Times|access-date = 21 August 2015|via = Newspaper Source - EBSCOhost}}</ref> It was initially started with twelve women, most of whom were [[journalist]]s.<ref>{{Cite book|title = 1968: Memories and Legacies of a Global Revolt|last = McCafferty|first = Nell|pages = 216–218|url = http://www.ghi-dc.org/files/publications/bu_supp/supp006/bus6_213.pdf|chapter = Ireland: Breaking the Shackles|access-date = 21 August 2015|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924022050/http://www.ghi-dc.org/files/publications/bu_supp/supp006/bus6_213.pdf|archive-date = 24 September 2015}}</ref> One of the co-founders was [[June Levine]].<ref>{{
In 1971, a group of Irish feminists (including [[June Levine]], [[Mary Kenny]], [[Nell McCafferty]], [[Máirín Johnston]], and other members of the [[Irish Women's Liberation Movement]]) travelled to [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], on the so-called "[[Contraceptive Train]]" and returned with [[condom]]s, which were then illegal in Ireland.
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