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.