IRISH DIVORCE: a history

DIANE URQUHART Cambridge University Press £22.99 ISBN 9781108717250 Reviewed by Mary Kenny Mary Kenny is a founder member of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement and author of Goodbye to Catholic Ireland (New Island Books, 2000). Historically, there has seldom been any great ‘clamour’—as Professor Diane Urquhart puts it—for divorce in Ireland. Although the Brehon laws ... Read more

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