On 20 July 1974 a group of women invaded the Forty Foot bathing place at Sandycove, Co Dublin, by "land, sea and air". The bathing place, made famous by James Joyce in Ulysses, had been exclusively male until then and the women were greeted with sexist abuse and male nudity, according to one of the participants, veteran journalist and campaigner Nell McCafferty.

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