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Cambridge University Press is
publishing a new socio-legal history of divorce in Ireland.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This is the first history of
Irish divorce. Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, it places
the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact
of a highly restrictive and gendered law and its reform. It considers the
accessibility of Irish divorce as it moved from a parliamentary process in
Westminster, the Irish parliament and the Northern Ireland parliament to a
court-based process. This socio-legal approach allows changing definitions of
gendered marital roles and marital cruelty to be assessed. In charting the
exceptionalism of Ireland's divorce provision in a European and imperial
framework, the study uncovers governmental reluctance to reform Irish divorce
law which spans jurisdictions and centuries. This was therefore not only a law
dictated by religious strictures but also by a long-lived moral conservatism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diane Urquhart, Queen's
University Belfast
Diane Urquhart is Professor of Gender History at Queen's University Belfast. She has written widely on Irish women's history and gender and is the author of The Ladies of Londonderry: Women and Political Patronage, 1800–1959 (2007) as well as Women in Ulster Politics, 1890–1940: A History Not Yet Told (2000), which was selected as an Irish Times Book of the Year. She is the editor of The Papers of the Ulster Women's Unionist Council and Executive Committee, 1911–40 (2001), co-editor of Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century (2010) and co-author of The Irish Abortion Journey, 1922–2018 (2019) with Lindsey Earner-Byrne.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. The 'anatomy of a
divorce'
1. Divorce in two legislatures:
Irish divorce, 1701–1857
2. The failings of the law: the
cases of Talbot and Westmeath
3. A non-inclusive reform:
Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857
4. Divorce in the post-reform era
of 1857–1922: 'Like diamonds, gambling, and picture-fancying, a luxury of the
rich'?
5. The widening definition of
marital cruelty
6. Divorce in court, 1857–1922
7. 'An exotic in very ungenial
soil': divorce in the Northern Ireland parliament, 1921–1939
8. With as 'little provocative as
possible': the Northern Ireland move to court
9. An 'unhappy affair': divorce
in independent Ireland, 1922–1950
10. Marriage law 'in this country
is an absolute shambles': the reform agenda
11. A 'curiosity [and]…an
oddity': referenda in 1986 and 1995
12. The 'last stretch of a long
road': the Family (Divorce) Law Act of 1996
Conclusion.
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