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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 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 |
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7 'An Exotic in Very Ungenial Soil': Divorce in the Northern Ireland Parliament, 1921-1939 -- 8 With as 'Little Provocation 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 -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Introduction: the 'Anatomy of a divorce'1 The 'history of divorce is not the least important, and is certainly one of the most typical chapters in the 'History of Freedom,' and its land-marks are those of that history.'2 The legalisation of divorce in the Republic of Ireland in 1996 was heralded as epoch making, but there was little acknowledgement that this was the third incarnation of Irish divorce. The reform was preceded by early Irish law which allowed divorce and over two centuries when divorce could be attained by a parliamentary act. As a satirical matrimonial map, produced in early 19th-century Cork, attested: 'Cat and Dog Harbour ... is the principle port for trade to the Divorce Island' which possessed 'a considerable population'. By comparison, 'The chief building ... the Fort of Repentance ... situated in the Vale of Tears, is scarcely ever inhabited'"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Divorce -- Ireland -- History
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Divorce -- Law and legislation -- Ireland
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Divorce
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Divorce -- Law and legislation
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019050320 |
| ISBN |
9781108675536 |
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1108675530 |
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