“He Meddled with or Molested Me”: #MeToo Protests in Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Poetry

The year 2017 was pivotal for women because of the #MeToo movement’s global momentum. People were alerted to abuses power and sexual harassment by male authorities in different fields such as government, entertainment industry. These scandals also helped bring attention objectification women’s normalised bodies their subjugation patriarchal cultures. Yet neither this disempowerment nor coming forward new, they have been widely explored contemporary writing. Examining Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill ’s poetry from prism #MeToo, paper discusses imprisonment silence, victimisation docility traditional discourse. This aims investigate how are monitored physically mentally male-centred contexts, molested societies can be empowered telling own stories. Keywords: movement; Dhomhnaill; women; harassment; silence