A01=Elaine Farrell
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Elaine Farrell
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBTB
Category=JBSP1
Category=JFSP1
Category=JKV
Category=NHTB
community response
concealed births
COP=United Kingdom
coroners' courts
criminal courts
dead children
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
depression
desertion
diabolical deed
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
evil mother
female prisoner
female suspect
infanticide
Ireland
Irish society
Language_English
manslaughter
melancholy
PA=Available
press coverage
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
puerperal insanity
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780719088209
- Weight: 503g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2013
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900, examining a sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Evidence for this study has been gleaned from a variety of sources, including court documents, coroners’ records, prison files, parliamentary papers, and newspapers. Through these sources, many of which are rarely used by scholars, attitudes towards the crime, the women accused of the offence, and the victim, are revealed. Although infant murder was a capital offence during this period, none of the women found guilty of the crime were executed, suggesting a degree of sympathy and understanding towards the accused. Infanticide cases also allude to complex dynamics and tensions between employers and servants, parents and pregnant daughters, judges and defendants, and prison authorities and inmates. This book highlights much about the lived realities of nineteenth-century Ireland.
Elaine Farrell is Lecturer in Modern Irish Economic and Social History at Queen’s University Belfast
