'‘Sick of the sorry party game’: gender and the McCann mixed marriage case of 1910'

A lecture by Prof Diane Urquhart (QUB) as part of the Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series.

Professor Diane Urquhart is a gender historian, specialising in political and legal history, particularly women’s first entry into politics from the late-nineteenth century onwards, Anglo-Irish political patronage and Ireland's history of abortion and divorce. She has published extremely widely on women’s history. Her most recent monograph Irish Divorce: A History, is the first full-length history of Irish divorce. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2020, this work won the international ACIS J S Donnelly, Sr. prize for the Humanities and the Social Sciences in 2021. Co-authored with Lindsey Earner-Byrne, The Irish Abortion Journey, 1920-2018 was published in the Pivot series by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.

The Modern and Contemporary Irish History Seminar Series will take place at 2.30p.m. on Wednesday in the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. It provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of new ideas, perspectives, and research on Irish history, Irish Studies and cognate disciplines. All are welcome. We particularly welcome members of the postgraduate community. Convenors: Dr Carole Holohan, Dr Ciaran O'Neill, Dr Georgina Laragy, Prof Lindsey Earner-Byrne. 

Please indicate if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: lindsey.earner@tcd.ie