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Marriage in Ireland Workshop
Programme
10.00-10.30: Registration, coffee, introduction
10.30-11.45: Session One
Dr John Bergin, The legal dissolution of marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925
Dr Rebecca Probert, Marriage and the law in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, 1660-1925
Professor Mary O’Dowd, Catholic Church attitudes to marriage in eighteenth-century Ireland
12.00-1.00 Lunch
12.45-2.45: Session Two
Professor Maria Luddy, The abduction of women in nineteenth-century Ireland
Dr Joanne Bailey, Household authority
Professor Eleanor Gordon, The decline of the ‘traditional family’?
Dr Katie Barclay, Economic resources and household authority: the Irish rural household
2.45-3.00 Coffee
3.00-4.00 Dr Elizabeth Foyster: Summary and general concluding discussion.