Source, Women's History

An Emigration Story

Three women, Catherine Murphy, Anne Walker, and Catherine Callahan were indicted for stealing a hat and convicted and sentenced to 7 years transportation. They were all old offenders, except one an 11 yr old girl, and they were not in…

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Source, Women's History

A Tale of Irish Courtship

Cork Police Office Judy Sullivans, antient dame, indicted for assaulting Miss Juliet Donnelly, tearing her bonnet and dishevelling her auburn dresses. Juliet’s lawyer requested she stand at the end of the table and remove her gloves. Judy (casting a scornful…

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Event, Women's History

Of Riot and Women

The recent riots that dominated the British news have led to significant debate over the motivations of the crowd, and whether it was a form of political protest or simple criminality. Yet, for the historian rioting is nothing new. Riots…

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Source, Women's History

A Journey

This blogger is away on holiday, so as she packs and runs out the door to the airport, she offers you a letter from Jane Welsh Carlyle to her mother-in-law, discussing her own journey as well as local gossip in…

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General, Women's History

Couple Beggars in Ireland

Within a context of relatively low levels of interference from Church and State, the urban lower classes often determined their own regulatory mechanisms for marriage that were shaped by their local contexts. In both Dublin and, in most Presbyterian Irish…

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General, Women's History

Policing Marriage

From the early nineteenth century, newspapers began to report on the operation of the local police and magistrate courts. The reportage of such cases uncovered the daily operations of the local court, as well as providing insight into working-class life…

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