[PDF] The Irish Student Law Review eBook

Author : Frances G. Matthews
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780956725806

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The Irish Student Law Review is a series of articles critically analyzing topical legal subjects

Author : Jennifer E. Spreng
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786484357

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In 1991, the people of Ireland elected Mary Robinson, a women's rights crusader who supported legalized birth control and divorce, as their president. The country seemed poised for massive social and legal change, but it became apparent that even though Ireland at the dawn of the 21st century would be very different from the Ireland of the past, many fundamentals would remain the same. This book examines Irish abortion and divorce law in their historical, religious, and cultural contexts. Its main focus is on the well-publicized referenda and court cases of the 1980s and 1990s, with special attention given to their roots and potential long-term effects on the communitarian Irish culture and opportunities for Irish women. The author identifies and discusses three forces that have affected Irish law and mores, especially those relating to abortion and divorce: economic insecurity; a sense of group loyalty and identification, particularly within families and churches; and Catholic teaching about the common good.

Author : Eugene Broderick
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1911024558

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John Hearne: Architect of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland is the first-ever biography of the ‘architect in chief and draftsman’ of the constitution. In the six-year period that it took to draft the constitution, John Hearne was involved at every stage alongside Éamon de Valera; his attitudes and concerns – especially with the protection of human rights in a period which saw the rise of dictatorships throughout Europe – governed the make-up of the fundamental law. This law still stands today and reverberates through every call for referendum or repeal. John Hearne is the biography of a man, later Irish Ambassador to Canada and the United States, who masterminded Irish policy, nationally and internationally, for decades; his essential role in the making of the constitution will result in a greater understanding and re-evaluation of one of its most defining and controversial documents.