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Women and the Law in Early Ireland


Helena Mary Early - Law Society of Ireland Gazette

The first woman to be entered on the Roll of Solicitors in the Irish Free State, Helena Mary Early, was born in Dublin and completed her apprenticeship.

Marriage in Medieval Ireland under the Brehon Laws - YouTube

The marriage laws of medieval Ireland are a topic which has bemused and confused many and debates on practices such as polygamy and the ...

Eska, Charlene M., “Women and slavery in the early Irish laws ...

Eska, Charlene M., “Women and slavery in the early Irish laws”, Studia Celtica Fennica 8 (2011): 29–39. journal article. Citation details. Contributors.

When Two Worlds Collide: Marriage and the Law in Medieval Ireland

After the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169 two entirely different legal systems concerning women and their rights upon marriage co-existed within Ireland.

100 years of women in law - Law Society of Ireland Gazette

This year marks the centenary of the first woman in Ireland to qualify as a solicitor (Mary Dorothea Heron) and the first female solicitor to obtain a ...

17.11.12, Oxenham, Perceptions of Femininity in Early Irish Society

In penitentials, too, early Irish authors perceived a sharper divide between secular and religious than between male and female: all in holy orders were ...

The Good Wife: Stereotypes of Married Women in Irish Law

Early Irish Law. Under Brehon law, women had no legal personality unless they owned prop- erty or if they married, when they enjoyed relatively liberal ...

Role of women in ancient / medieval Ireland? : r/IrishHistory - Reddit

Share. Crimthann_fathach. • 2mo ago •. A guide to early Irish law and early Irish farming are the best sources. Upvote 4. Downvote Reply reply

The Role of Women in Medieval Ireland

One writer even describes female evidence as 'biased and dishonest'! Most legal references to women relate to marriage. Irish law recognised ...

Full article: 'Their proper place': women, work and the marriage bar ...

Until 1973, women in the Irish civil service were legally required to retire from employment after marriage. Certain lower grades were ...

2. Early Medieval Ireland and the Brehon Law

... early twentieth century Ireland of what is sometimes called “early Irish law”. ... According to Eoin MacNeill “The status of women in ancient Irish law and the ...

Sources for Women's History - The National Archives of Ireland

Did you know that the oldest record we hold relating to a woman is a memoranda roll from 1309? That the place of Countess Markievicz's birth is given ...

Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle ...

... law to present their latest research on women in early medieval ... Women in Early Medieval Ireland - Aidan O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Boyle ...

Women's monastic enclosures in early Ireland: a study of female ...

They believed that women could attain salvation as well as themselves. Yet the entire church hierarchy of Ireland was dominated by supposedly celibate men, ...

10 Things a woman could not do in Ireland in 1970 - Irish Echo

Women's Aid campaigned for changes in the law, and in 1976 the Family Law Act, Ireland's first legislation on domestic violence, enabled one ...

Trailblazers: 1919 – 2019: 100 Years of Women at The Bar

Prior to the passing of the act women had made attempts to enter the profession, applying to the Law Society of Ireland and the Honorable Society of King's Inns ...

Ireland | Women and Justice | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute

Article 41.3.1 of the Irish Constitution required the State to guard the institution of marriage with special care. The continued relevance of this decision is ...

Subjective Constructions: Medieval and modern perceptions of ...

Finally, a specific look at warrior women in the Ulster Cycle argues that the evidence of the androcentric society found in medieval Irish legal and literary ...

Irish women's rights and equality in the EU

Irish gender equality legislation was first introduced in the 1970s after Ireland became a member of what was then the European Economic Community (EEC). One of ...

Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland

Exposing the inner workings of the Irish legal system, Stacey examines the manner in which publicly enacted words and silences were used to construct legal and ...