User:Laramcdonald/sandbox

Career
Bernie Dwyer lectured in UCD after graduating, teaching Women’s studies. Dwyer also was a part of their outreach programme in the inner city and other areas, that was for adult education, she delivered her classes at  at St Michael's estate, Inchicore, Dublin in the family resource centre. (The Irish Times, 2013)

In Dwyer’s careers she was a member of an international solidarity brigade and travelled to Latin America in 1988, in this time she helped re-establish the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in order to advance Ireland and Cuba’s economic and cultural relations and to protest the Blockade of Cuba by the US (The Irish Times, 2013).

Dwyer continued visiting and helping Cuba throughout her career. In1998 Dwyer assisted Spanish civil war veteran and leading Irish communist Mick O’Riordan to Cuba on an aid shipment. (The Irish Times, 2013) The Irish Times. (2013, July 20). The Irish Times. https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/bernie-dwyer/

In Dwyer’s career she was a part of a counselling service called Open Door, this was to help support women with unplanned pregnancies and was run by three people. After legal action was taken against them Open Door was closed down by the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (SPUC). Bernie Dwyer continued to work with supporting women with unplanned pregnancies with Open Line which is a helpline service with the same aim as Open Door.

In May 1986 Dwyer was voted in to the Irish Council for Civil Liberties to be on the executive committee. (Liz Evers, 2019) Evers, Liz. (2019, June). Dwyer, Bernie | Dictionary of Irish Biography. Www.dib.ie. https://www.dib.ie/biography/dwyer bernie-a10086

Dwyer's works created in Cuba consists of two documentaries about Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Che: The Irish Legacy (1999) and Che In Ireland (2001)