LEGAL: Ladies of the law

The pioneering women in Irish legal history. By John Lucey In the 1880s women could study law in Ireland but were unable to practise. By the following decade the first women doctors were practising, but those wishing to work as barristers and solicitors would have to wait a further three decades to do so. Two ... Read more

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