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This essay assesses the role of physical disability in early twentieth-century Irish dramatic literature. In particular, by focusing on such playsas W.B. Yeats’s On Baile’s Strand(1903) and the character of Johnny Boyle in Sean O’Casey’s Juno an[...]
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In early 2018, Erin Darcy created an online art project, In Her Shoes – Women of the Eighth, to safely and anonymously share private stories of the real and devastating impact of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland. In the five m[...]Nouveauté
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In over forty years in medicine, obstetrician Peter Boylan was at the births of more than 6000 babies. He saw women and families at their most vulnerable, their most joyous, and sometimes their most heart-broken. In the Shadow of the Eighth is t[...]
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Introduction Maternity and Moral Migration, 1920s–1960s Legality and Irish Abortion, 1920s–1960s Contraceptive Mentalities, 1960s–1980s Pro-life States of Mind, 1967–2000s Abortion in Exile, 1967–2018 Trusting Women, 2000–2018 Conclusion
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Context: abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland north and south. Ireland is the only democracy in the western world to have a constitutional ban on abortion. This is depressing and oppressive, but people are trying to chan[...]
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Elizabethanne BORAN, Auteur |This article examines what was on the shelves of the medical marketplace in early eighteenth-century Dublin. It does so by analyzing the medical cohort in twenty-one auction and sales catalogues, printed in Dublin between 1695 and 1740. It explo[...]
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Perceptions of the mentally ill Irish population during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Analyses of British discriminatory perceptions of the Irish population during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are well versed in the historiography. Previous works have demonstrated that the Irish migrant population were perceived to be d[...]
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John PRIVILEGE, Auteur |Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom's only self-governing region, recorded year-on-year the worst statistics on health and poverty. However, it was far from certain that the Unionist government in Belfast would enact the kind of sweeping post-w[...]Article
Ann DALY, Auteur |In 1878, a meeting organised in Dublin by those in favour of repealing the contentious Contagious Diseases Acts ended in chaos and disruption. The acts themselves empowered police and doctors to forcibly detain and examine women (which specified[...]Article
Catherine MAIGNANT, Auteur |The 2013 debate on abortion is the starting point of this paper, which argues that the evolution of Church-State relationships since the creation of the Irish Free State may be understood in theological and philosophical terms. The traditional w[...]Article
Colum KENNY, Auteur |The author contrasts current images of the Irish Catholic Church with an abiding popular narrative of the relationship between priests and people in Ireland. He notes a recent decline in church attendance and widespread criticism of church autho[...]
