Maguire, Moira <br/><br/>
Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland /Moira J. Maguire. 

 - Manchester :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2009. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 244 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781781702604 9781847793256 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Catholic Church.<br/>Catholic Church--Ireland.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children with social disabilities--Government policy--History--Ireland--20th century.<br/>Poor children--Government policy--History--Ireland--20th century.<br/>Christianity and politics--Catholic Church--History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV757  / .P743 2009