Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland (Record no. 55904)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02429nam a2200421 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 362.70869409415 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Maguire, Moira |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Manchester, U.K. ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Manchester University Press ; |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Year of publication | 2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii, 244 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Moira J. Maguire"--Book jacket. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Poverty, family dysfunction, and state provision for neglected children -- Cherished equally? "Outdoor" provision for illegitimate children -- Cherished equally? Institutional provision for illegitimate children -- Legislating care and protection : the Carrigan Committee, the age of consent, and adoption -- The abused child? -- Sanctity of child life? Official responses to infanticide -- Desperate act or wilful choice? Infanticide and unwanted children. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised and ignored them. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Children with social disabilities |
| Topical Term | Poor children |
| Topical Term | Christianity and politics |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10623390 |
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