Black, Lynsey, <br/><br/>
Gender and punishment in Ireland :  women, murder and the death penalty, 1922-64 / 
Lynsey Black. 
 - Manchester :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2022. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Front Matter --  Dedication --  Contents --  List of tables --  Acknowledgements --  Introduction --  Women prosecuted for murder --  Clemency for the condemned --  Insanity --  Sentencing and punishment --  Post-reprieve punishment of death-sentenced women --  Motherhood and child-killing --  Marriage and sexuality --  Rural lives and class --  Conclusion: Women's lethal violence in Ireland --  Bibliography --  Index 
<br/><br/> In the decades after Irish independence, 292 women were prosecuted for murder, facing the threat of conviction and death sentencing. Within a rising atmosphere of hostility to women, moral rigidity, sexual repression and Catholic Church control, this book explores the meanings and responses to women's lethal violence in postcolonial Ireland. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526145291 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Capital punishment--History--Ireland--20th century.<br/>Women murderers--History--Ireland--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8699  / .G463 2022