The Street Memorial to Savita Halappanavar in Dublin

Thèmes abordés

Savita Halappanavar, Street Memorial, Dublin, Ireland, droit à l'avortement, féminisme, abortion, martyre, feminism

Résumé du document

This document is a photograph. It was taken in Dublin, Ireland, in 2018. This represents a street memorial to Savita Halappanavar. We will first describe the photography thoroughly and then analyse and comment on the picture.

Extraits

[...] The red on the picture refers to the blood shed by women in Ireland because of abortion. Her story was the one of a woman who repeatedly asked for an abortion and never obtained it. She died because she was refused that right to abort. II. The legalisation of abortion in Ireland Abortion in Ireland was considered illegal for religious reasons and a lot of women in Ireland died because of the impossibility to get a legal abortion in the country. [...]

[...] The source of the document says that the picture is a street memorial. Considering this, we understand that the woman whose name is Savita Halappanavar is dead. The fact that the photograph was taken in Dublin is an important information. By observing the signs on the photograph, we can understand that there is a political implication in the document. That's why we can consider the YES, we see on the picture are ballot papers. Indeed, Savita Halappanavar has become the symbol of the recent referendum that took place in Ireland. [...]

[...] The use of a graffiti on the wall evokes other particular times in Irish history. Of course, Ireland in the twentieth century had to fight for its independence against England. They also had to suffer from a division of the country between Catholics and protestants. The streets of Dublin and Belfast played an important role in that matter, and lots of messages were spread on Irish city walls in the two capitals. Images of the bloody Sunday relates to the picture we have to analyse. [...]

[...] I also think we can consider this image as being very peaceful, representing a smiling person for a very sad story, as a symbol of the resilience of people fighting for the rest of their community. You don't really choose to be a hero, more often than not people choose you as their hero because they see a part of their story in you. I believe this is what happened in that picture, where women can feel proud of freeing someone trapped on a wall by using a voting ballot. The photograph taken here shows more than just that image, it shows the story of an entire country for more freedom. [...]

[...] This represents a street memorial to Savita Halappanavar. We will first describe the photography thoroughly and then analyse and comment the picture. I. Description The first striking element of the photograph is the large picture of the woman in the middle. We are faced with the smile and gaze of a woman. We can only see her face and the size of her face is very big, as big as a standing man. It seems that the face was printed on a white wall. [...]