She said she was in the family way: Pregnancy and infancy in modern Ireland

Chapters

• Introduction

  Elaine Farrell
• I. ‘I WOULD TAKE ANYTHING TO PREVENT ME HAVING A CHILD'
• 1. ‘Veiled obscenity’: contraception and the Dublin Medical Press, 1850–1900

  Ann Daly
• 2. ‘Its effect on public morality is vicious in the extreme’: defining birth control as obscene and unethical, 1926–32

  Sandra McAvoy
• II: 'INEXPRESSIBLE RENDINGS OF HEART AT THE PROSPECT OF MY CHILD'S DEATH'
• 3. Some sources for the study of infant and maternal mortality in later seventeenth-century Ireland

  Clodagh Tait
• 4. ‘A time of trial being near at hand’: pregnancy, childbirth and parenting in the spiritual journal of Elizabeth Bennis, 1749–79

  Rosemary Raughter
• 5. Birth and death in nineteenth-century Dublin’s lying-in hospitals

  Julia Anne Bergin
• III: 'THE NATURAL AND PROPER GUARDIAN OF THE CHILD'
• 6. Medicinal care in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Irish home

  Emma O’Toole
• 7. The chrysalis in the cradle

  Elaine Murray
• IV: 'THE WORLD ACTED UNJUSTLY TO WOMEN IN THIS FALLEN POSITION'
• 8. ‘Found in a “dying” condition’: nurse-children in Ireland, 1872–1952

  Sarah-Anne Buckley
• 9. In the family way and away from the family: examining the evidence for Irish unmarried mothers in Britain, 1920s–40s

  Jennifer Redmond
• V: 'I KNOW SHE NEVER INTENDED TO REAR IT'
• 10. Responding to infanticide in Ireland, 1680–1820

  James Kelly
• 11. ‘A very immoral establishment’: the crime of infanticide and class status in Ireland, 1850–1900

  Elaine Farrell
• 12. Beyond cradle and grave: Irish folklore about the spirits of unbaptized infants and the spirits of women who murdered babies

  Anne O’Connor
• Index