Ray Kavanagh

Mamie Cadden (eBook, ePUB)

Backstreet Abortionist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The spellbinding story of the most Irish famous abortionist of the 1940s and 1950s, Mamie Cadden. Mamie Cadden was born in the US of Co. Mayo parents who returned to Ireland soon after her birth. Mamie qualified as a midwife from the National Maternity Hospital in 1925 and started work in one of Dublin's many nursing homes.

Soon after she established her own home, St. Maelruins, in Rathmines. Mamie became famous in Dublin for her fast lifestyle, blonde hair, MG sportscar and friendship with students, bohemians and other independent women. However, it all came to a temporary end in 1939 when she was sentenced to jail for abandoning a child she had contracted to place in a home.

When she emerged in 1940 she began to concentrate on the busy abortion services in Dublin, a service which would eventually land her in jail for the rest of her life...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mercier Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781856359108
• Artikelnr.: 38449175

Autorenporträt

Ray Kavanagh was national campaign director for the anti-amendment campaign in the 1983 referendum that inserted the eighth amendment to the Irish Constitution. He was General Secretary of the Labour Party from 1986 to 1999. He is a national school teacher, originally from Offaly, but now living and working in Dublin.