LEADER 04580cam 2200481 i 4500001 on1117917944 003 OCoLC 005 20200910123636.2 008 190829s2020 er a b 001 0 eng 010 2019036968 020 9781108486170 |qhardcover 020 1108486177 |qhardcover 020 9781108731904 |qpaperback 020 1108731902 |qpaperback 020 |z9781108645164 |qelectronic publication 035 (Sirsi) 40030170940 035 40030170940 035 (OCoLC)1117917944 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dERASA |dYDXIT |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 e-ie--- 050 00 HQ619 |b.O36 2020 082 00 306.8109417 |223 100 1 O'Dowd, Mary, |eauthor. |=^A189592 245 10 Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925 / |cMaria Luddy, University of Warwick, Mary O'Dowd, Queen's University Belfast. 264 1 Cambridge, United Kingdom ;New York, NY : |bCambridge University Press, |c2020. 300 xiv, 448 pages : |billustrations (black and white) ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 "Marriage is one of the oldest institutions in Ireland. The earliest legal codes in Irish history incorporated a detailed set of regulations on the rights and responsibilities of husbands and wives. In the medieval period marriage was at the core of the conflict between Gaelic and English customs and social practices. Marital alliances were also an essential element in sixteenth and seventeenth century political and economic networks. The continuing significance of family connections is also evident in eighteenth-century Irish political life. In the nineteenth century, the financial arrangements for marriage were an important factor in the economic structure of rural society. Marriage also set the parameters for the sexual moral code which prevailed in twentieth-century Irish society. In this book we set out to write an extended study of the history of heterosexual marriage on the island of Ireland from 1660 to 1925. The time frame begins with the Restoration of Charles II as king of Ireland and ends with the parliamentary debate on divorce in the Irish Free State. The starting date of 1660 was partly determined by the availability of source material but the Restoration also marks the beginning of the legislative structure and the political divisions that were to frame the history of Ireland over the following two hundred and sixty years. We chose 1925 as our concluding year because the Oireachtas1 debate on divorce marked a significant turning point in evolving 1 The Oireachtas refers to the two houses of the Irish egislature (the Dáil, lower house and Seanad upper house). 16 attitudes to marriage in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. The public controversy provoked by the debate silenced parliamentary discussion on the possible introduction of divorce in the Irish Free State. The 1937 constitutional ban on divorce continued the reluctance of the Irish state to countenance legislation on marital dissolution and remarriage until compelled to do so in the 1990s. 1925 was also an important year in the history of divorce in Northern Ireland. By contrast with the Irish Free State, the newly established parliament in Belfast agreed in 1921 to accept petitions for divorce and the first petition was read in the Northern Ireland House of Commons in 1925. Thereafter, marriage law in Northern Ireland was gradually brought into line with that in England. In 1939, divorce was transferred from the jurisdiction of the parliament to the High Court of Northern Ireland, a move which emphasised the increasing legal divergence of the two parts of the island"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Marriage |zIreland |xHistory. |=^A505 650 7 Marriage. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01010443 651 7 Ireland. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01205427 |?UNAUTHORIZED 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 Luddy, Maria, |eauthor. |=^A364521 776 08 |iOnline version:O'Dowd, Mary. |tMarriage in Ireland, 1660-1925 |dCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. |z9781108645164 |w(DLC) 2019036969 949 |i30372017371193 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s99.99 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 5548100