| Author | : Elaine Frances Farrell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Infanticide |
| ISBN | : 9781906865238 |
A most diabolical deed'
| Author | : Elaine Farrell |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2015-11-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1526102242 |
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900, examining a sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Evidence for this study has been gleaned from a variety of sources, including court documents, coroners’ records, prison files, parliamentary papers, and newspapers. Through these sources, many of which are rarely used by scholars, attitudes towards the crime, the women accused of the offence, and the victim, are revealed. Although infant murder was a capital offence during this period, none of the women found guilty of the crime were executed, suggesting a degree of sympathy and understanding towards the accused. Infanticide cases also allude to complex dynamics and tensions between employers and servants, parents and pregnant daughters, judges and defendants, and prison authorities and inmates. This book highlights much about the lived realities of nineteenth-century Ireland.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History
| Author | : Alvin Jackson |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 801 |
| Release | : 2014-03-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0191667595 |
The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and achievement by bringing together 36 leading scholars of modern Ireland and embracing 400 years of Irish history, uniting early and late modernists as well as contemporary historians. The Handbook offers a set of scholarly perspectives drawn from numerous disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, and the Irish language. It looks at the Irish at home as well as in their migrant and diasporic communities. The Handbook combines sets of wide thematic and interpretative essays, with more detailed investigations of particular periods. Each of the contributors offers a summation of the state of scholarship within their subject area, linking their own research insights with assessments of future directions within the discipline. In its breadth and depth and diversity, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History offers an authoritative and vibrant portrayal of the history of modern Ireland.
Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925
| Author | : Maria Luddy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2020-06-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108788467 |
What were the laws on marriage in Ireland, and did church and state differ in their interpretation? How did men and women meet and arrange to marry? How important was patriarchy and a husband's control over his wife? And what were the options available to Irish men and women who wished to leave an unhappy marriage? This first comprehensive history of marriage in Ireland across three centuries looks below the level of elite society for a multi-faceted exploration of how marriage was perceived, negotiated and controlled by the church and state, as well as by individual men and women within Irish society. Making extensive use of new and under-utilised primary sources, Maria Luddy and Mary O'Dowd explain the laws and customs around marriage in Ireland. Revising current understandings of marital law and relations, Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925 represents a major new contribution to Irish historical studies.
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland
| Author | : Elaine Farrell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2020-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108839509 |
Focusing on women's relationships, life-circumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland.
Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class
| Author | : Ciara Breathnach |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2022-05-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 019263528X |
Ordinary Lives, Death, and Social Class focuses on the evolution of the Dublin City Coroner's Court and on Dr Louis A. Bryne's first two years in office. Wrapping itself around the 1901 census, the study uses gender, power, and blame as analytical frameworks to examine what inquests can tell us about the impact of urban living from lifecycle and class perspectives. Coroners' inquests are a combination of eyewitness testimony, expert medico-legal language, detailed minutiae of people, places, and occupational identities pinned to a moment in time. Thus they have a simultaneous capacity to reveal histories from both above and below. Rich in geographical, socio-economic, cultural, class, and medical detail, these records collated in a liminal setting about the hour of death bear incredible witness to what has often been termed 'ordinary lives'. The subjects of Dr Byrne's court were among the poorest in Ireland and, apart from common medical causes problems linked to lower socio-economic groups, this volume covers preventable cases of workplace accidents, neglect, domestic abuse, and homicide.
The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence
| Author | : Stacy Banwell |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 569 |
| Release | : 2023-08-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1803822554 |
Grounded in feminist scholarship, this book upends normative accounts of femme fatale violence to focus beyond the misogyny and the sensationalism and unearth the motivation behind women's roles in homicide, terrorism, combat, and even nationalist movements.
The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
| Author | : Eugenio F. Biagini |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 651 |
| Release | : 2017-04-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108228623 |
Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and children, Catholics and Protestants, and in the North, South and the diaspora. An international team of leading scholars survey key changes in population, the economy, occupations, property ownership, class and migration, and also consider the interaction of the individual and the state through welfare, education, crime and policing. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently setting Irish developments in a wider European and global context, this is an invaluable resource for courses on modern Irish history and Irish studies.
