Women protest at the Forty Foot, a traditional male only swimming point at Sandycove, Dublin. The group of protesting women call themselves, the Dublin City Women's Invasionary Force.
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Women protest at the Forty Foot, a traditional male only swimming point at Sandycove, Dublin. The group of protesting women call themselves, the Dublin City Women's Invasionary Force.
FILM SHOWS: CU of sign saying, "Gentlemen's Bathing Place The Forty Foot".
Women sitting by the water in bathing suits hold placards saying, "Out from under into the swim! Women Swimming" and "The Forty Foot is for women too."
A woman standing holds a sign saying, "We'll fight on the beaches we'll win between the sheets"
An angry male swimmer tells the RTÉ crew to leave the area and says, "There was a time when no self respecting women would be in here anyway."
A man interviewed says that they don't rush into Dun Laoghaire golf club and say it should be open to everybody. "We don't rush into Telefís Éireann and say we should have our coffee in your canteen and so on. Why should we?"
A woman bather says, If it was a male only club to specifically exclude women simply because we are women thereby assuming we are inferior to men yes I would"
The reporter asks the same woman, "The men bathe nude here in the morning. Are you going to break in on them when they are swimming that way?"
The woman replies, "Well if it is a rule that they swim here nude before 9am yes. I mean we came into this world naked."
Reporter, "You would swim nude as well?"
Woman, "Yes I would."
VARIOUS SHOTS of men women and children swimming.
Further information
A news report from RTÉ news first broadcast 20 July 1974.
Women protest at the Forty Foot, a traditional male only swimming point at Sandycove, Dublin. The group of protesting women call themselves, the Dublin City Women's Invasionary Force.
FILM SHOWS: CU of sign saying, "Gentlemen's Bathing Place The Forty Foot".
Women sitting by the water in bathing suits hold placards saying, "Out from under into the swim! Women Swimming" and "The Forty Foot is for women too."
A woman standing holds a sign saying, "We'll fight on the beaches we'll win between the sheets"
An angry male swimmer tells the RTÉ crew to leave the area and says, "There was a time when no self respecting women would be in here anyway."
A man interviewed says that they don't rush into Dun Laoghaire golf club and say it should be open to everybody. "We don't rush into Telefís Éireann and say we should have our coffee in your canteen and so on. Why should we?"
A woman bather says, If it was a male only club to specifically exclude women simply because we are women thereby assuming we are inferior to men yes I would"
The reporter asks the same woman, "The men bathe nude here in the morning. Are you going to break in on them when they are swimming that way?"
The woman replies, "Well if it is a rule that they swim here nude before 9am yes. I mean we came into this world naked."
Reporter, "You would swim nude as well?"
Woman, "Yes I would."
VARIOUS SHOTS of men women and children swimming.
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