Moira Maguire

Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals the desperate plight of the poor, neglected, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780719087745
• ISBN-10: 0719087740
• Artikelnr.: 35556636

Autorenporträt

Moira J. Maguire is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Poverty, family dysfunction, and State provision for
neglected children 2. Cherished equally? "Outdoor" provision for
illegitimate children 3. Cherished equally? Institutional provision for
illegitimate children 4. Legislating care and protection: The Carrigan
Committee, the age of consent, and adoption 5. The abused child? 6.
Sanctity of child life? Official responses to infanticide 7. Desperate act
or wilful choice? Infanticide and unwanted children Index