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The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

By: Mary E. Daly

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The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland

By: Mary E. Daly

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009314890

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Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination

By: Mary P. Caulfield

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Ireland, Memory and Performing the Historical Imagination

By: Mary P. Caulfield

This book explores the performance of Irish collective memories and forgotten histories. It proposes an alternative and more comprehensive criterion of Irish theatre practices. These practices can be defined as the 'rejected', contested and undervalued plays and performativities that are integral to Ireland's political and cultural landscapes.

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Springer

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1137362189

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A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800

By: Mary O'Dowd

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A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800

By: Mary O'Dowd

The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.

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Routledge

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131787725X

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Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender

By: Mary Hatfield

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Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

A Cultural History of Middle-Class Childhood and Gender

By: Mary Hatfield

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition of a 'good' childhood. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books, medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

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Oxford University Press

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0192581457

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Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century

By: Mary Gilmartin

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Ireland and migration in the twenty-first century

By: Mary Gilmartin

Considers migration to, from and within Ireland in the twenty-first century, covering the Celtic Tiger era of mass immigration to Ireland as well as the dramatic growth in levels of emigration that has occurred since the Irish economic collapse.

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Manchester University Press

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1784996572

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Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925

By: Maria Luddy,Mary O'Dowd

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Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925

By: Maria Luddy,Mary O'Dowd

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108788467

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Irish Literature

Background and Guide to Books

By: Mary Ketsin

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Irish Literature

Background and Guide to Books

By: Mary Ketsin

Irish literature's roots have been traced to the 7th-9th century. This is a rich and hardy literature starting with descriptions of the brave deeds of kings, saints and other heroes. These were followed by generous veins of religious, historical, genealogical, scientific and other works. The development of prose, poetry and drama raced along with the times. Modern, well-known Irish writers include: William Yeats, James Joyce, Sean Casey, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge and Samuel Beckett.

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Nova Publishers

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1590335902

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Brian Friel

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Brian Friel

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relationships and his literary topics and themes, such as belonging, violence, patriarchy and hypocrisy. Character summaries describe his most significant figures, particularly St. Columba, the victims of Derry's Bloody Sunday, and Hugh O'Neill, the Lord of Tyrone. Entries analyze Friel's style in detail, from his column in the Irish Times and his short fiction in the New Yorker to his most recent plays, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Translations, and Dancing at Lughnasa.

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McFarland

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1476627819

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Ethnic Options

Choosing Identities in America

By: Mary C. Waters

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Ethnic Options

Choosing Identities in America

By: Mary C. Waters

Mary Waters' admirable study of Americans' ethnic choices produces a rich social-scientific yield. Its theoretical interest derives from the American irony that while ethnicity is 'supposed to be' ascribed, many Americans are active in choosing and making their ethnic memberships and identities. The monograph is simultaneously objective and attentive to subjective meaning, simultaneously quantitative and qualitative, and simultaneously sociological and psychological. Her research problems are well-conceived, and her findings important and well-documented. As ethnicity and race continue in their high salience in American society and politics, sound social-scientific studies like this one are all the more valuable."—Neil Smelser, co-editor of The Social Importance of Self-Esteem "One of the most sensible and elegant books about ethnicity in the United States that has ever been my great pleasure to read."—Andrew M. Greeley, University of Chicago "Skilled in both demographic and interviewing methods, Mary Waters makes ethnicity in contemporary America come alive. We learn how people construct their identities, and why. This is sociological research at its very best, and will be of interest to policy makers and educated Americans as well as to students and scholars in several disciplines."—Theda Skocpol, Harvard University "Perhaps the most intriguing question in the study of the 'old (European) immigration" is how the 4th, 5th and later generations who are the offspring of several intermarriages are choosing their ethnic identities from the several available to them. Professor Waters' clever mix of quantitative and qualitative research has produced some thoughtful and eminently sensible answers to that question, making her book required reading for students of ethnicity. Her work should also interest general readers concerned with their or their children's ethnic identity—or just curious about this yet little known variety of American pluralism."—Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University "Waters has produced a work with broad theoretical implications. The title . . . may be regarded as one of the first serious attempts to understand the dynamics of postmodern societies. Waters shows that ethnicity becomes transformed from as ascriptive into an achieved status, a voluntary construction of individual identity and group solidarity. Waters also shows that, in America at least, this increased flexibility is unavailable to racial minorities."—Jeffrey C. Alexander, University of California, Los Angeles "A theoretically informed and theoretically driven fine-grained analysis pooling ideas and issues in both ethnography and demography."—Stanley Lieberson, Harvard University "Thanks to Ethnic Options we have a much better understanding of the social and cultural significance of responses to the ancestry question on the 1980 census. By combining in-depth interviews with analysis of census data, Mary Waters puts flesh on the demographic bare bones. Her findings suggest that ethnicity is becoming less an ascribed trait, fixed at birth, than an 'option' that depends on circumstance, whim, and increasingly, the ethnicity of one's spouse."—Stephen Steinberg, author of The Ethnic Myth

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Univ of California Press

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0520070836

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The Slow Failure

Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973

By: Mary E. Daly

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The Slow Failure

Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973

By: Mary E. Daly

Focusing on both Irish government and society, Daly places Ireland's population history in the mainstream history of independent Ireland. Her book is essential reading for understanding modern Irish history."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299212904

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9780299212902

Catholic Devotion in Victorian England

By: Mary Heimann

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Catholic Devotion in Victorian England

By: Mary Heimann

Heimann offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant devotions and attitudes in the new context of the reestablishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century.

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Home Children Bundle

The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

By: Mary Pettit,Gail H. Corbett,Marjorie Kohli,Kenneth Bagnell

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The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

By: Mary Pettit,Gail H. Corbett,Marjorie Kohli,Kenneth Bagnell

In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened youngsters to whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. This bundle of titles tells the entire story from many angles and in its many facets, from historical recounting, to genealogical information, to the personal story one such child, Mary Janeway. Includes: The Golden Bridge The Little Immigrants Mary Janeway Nation Builders Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

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Dundurn

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1459727967

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9781459727960

Ladies in the Laboratory II

West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : a Survey of Their Contributions to Research

By: Mary R. S. Creese,Thomas M. Creese

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Ladies in the Laboratory II

West European Women in Science, 1800-1900 : a Survey of Their Contributions to Research

By: Mary R. S. Creese,Thomas M. Creese

A survey of nineteenth-century women whose journal publications are listed in the 19 volume London Royal Society's Catalogue of scientific papers, 1800-1900, comprising an author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, being the major index of scientific journal literature for the period.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810849798

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Peace Without Consensus

Power Sharing Politics in Northern Ireland

By: Mary Alice C. Clancy

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Peace Without Consensus

Power Sharing Politics in Northern Ireland

By: Mary Alice C. Clancy

Peace Without Consensus explores the contribution of the US, British and Irish governments to the electoral triumph of Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party in 2003. Profiled in the Guardian, the Observer, BBC Radio Four, the Irish Independent and Henry McDonald's 'Gunsmoke and Mirrors', the book offers salient lessons for regions embroiled in conflict and should be read by all those interested in Northern Ireland's peace process and US foreign policy.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754678318

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9780754678311

Sixties Ireland

Reshaping the Economy, State and Society, 1957–1973

By: Mary E. Daly

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Sixties Ireland

Reshaping the Economy, State and Society, 1957–1973

By: Mary E. Daly

A radical new perspective revealing the truth behind the making of modern Ireland from economic rebirth to entering the EEC.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107145929

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9781107145924

New Frontiers In Women's Studies

Knowledge, Identity And Nationalism

By: Mary Maynard,June Purvis

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New Frontiers In Women's Studies

Knowledge, Identity And Nationalism

By: Mary Maynard,June Purvis

This text reveals the diversities which continue to shape women's beliefs and experiences. It includes debates on women and nationalisms, women and social policy, sexuality, black studies and ethnic studies, women and education, women and cultural production and women's studies and gender studies.

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1135747059

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The Transforming Power of the Nuns

Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900

By: Mary Peckham Magray

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The Transforming Power of the Nuns

Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900

By: Mary Peckham Magray

Mary Peckham Magray argues that the Irish Catholic cultural revolution in the nineteenth century was effected not only by male elites, as previous scholarship has claimed, but also by the most overlooked and underestimated women in Ireland: the nuns. Once thought to be merely passive servants of the male clerical hierarchy, women's religious orders were in fact at the very center of the creation of a devout Catholic culture in Ireland. Often well-educated, articulate, and evangelical, nuns were much more social and ambitious than traditional stereotypical views have held. They used their wealth and their authority to effect changes in both the religious practices and daily activity of the larger Irish Catholic population, and by doing so, Magray argues, deserve a far larger place in the Irish historical record than they have previously been accorded. Magray's innovative work challenges some of the most widely held assumptions of social history in nineteenth-century Ireland. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Irish history, religious history, women's studies, and sociology.

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Oxford University Press

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0195354524

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Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism

Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

By: Mary Trigg

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Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism

Motherhood Under Duress in the United States, 1920-1960

By: Mary Trigg

The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960. Fuelled by anxieties around feminism, a perception of men’s loss of status and masculinity, racial tensions, and fears about immigration, "antimaternalism" discourse blamed mothers for a wide range of social ills in the first half of the 20th Century. Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism considers the ideas, practices, and depictions of antimaternalism, and the ways that mothers responded. Religion, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration status are all analysed as factors shaping maternal experience. The book develops the historical context of American motherhood between 1920 and 1960, examining how changing ideas – scientific motherhood, time efficiency, devaluation of domesticity, racial and religious bias - influenced the construction and experiences of motherhood. This is a fascinating and important book suitable for students and scholars in history, gender studies, cultural studies and sociology.

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1000843777

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Claiming the City

Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul

By: Mary Lethert Wingerd

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Claiming the City

Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul

By: Mary Lethert Wingerd

The author brings together the voices of citizens and workers and the power dynamics of civic leaders including James J. Hill and Archbishop John Ireland.

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Cornell University Press

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0801488850

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9780801488856

Milton's Places of Hope

Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land

By: Mary C. Fenton

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Milton's Places of Hope

Spiritual and Political Connections of Hope with Land

By: Mary C. Fenton

Drawing on an array of materials from the seventeenth century, including emblems, legal treatises, political pamphlets, and prayer manuals, Mary C. Fenton sheds light on Milton's ideas about personal and national identity, and where people should place th

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