Download or read book Law and the Family in Ireland, 1800–1950 written by Niamh Howlin and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary study considers the intersection between law and family life in Ireland from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Setting the law in its wider social historical context it traces marriage from its formation through to its breakdown. It considers the impact of the law on such issues as adultery, divorce, broken engagements, marriage settlements, pregnancy, adoption, property, domestic violence, concealment of birth and inter-family homicide, as well as the historical origins of the Constitutional protection of the family. An underlying theme is the way in which the law of the family in Ireland differed from the law of the family in England.