TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maguire,Moira
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland
AV  - HV757.A6 M33 2009eb
U1  - 362.70869409415 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Manchester, U.K., New York, New York
PB  - Manchester University Press, Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Children with social disabilities
KW  - Government policy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Poor children
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1922-
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - "Moira J. Maguire"--Book jacket; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10623390
ER  -