Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 984123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsey Earner-Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Earner-Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | EARNER-BYRNE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4997-8627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Encountering modern Irish history
Ireland’s historical coordinates are shifting, prompting a re-examination of national narratives and of the assumptions and anxieties that have kept them in place. Increasingly, stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives are the focus of historical study, revealing the structural violence used to maintain societal order. This article argues that tending to bigger questions about power and smaller ones about human experience c…
Gendering the Mixed Economies of Welfare
The Introduction explains the usefulness of the term “mixed economy of welfare”, the crucial role of gender in its formation and the different meanings of “postwar” in the national case studies included in the special issue. It also previews the six articles of the issue and highlights the often unexpected similarities between them
I felt I should be there, all these people talking on my behalf without consulting me”
In the early 1970s, Cherish, the first support and advocacy group for unmarried mothers run by unmarried mothers, emerged into the mixed economy of welfare in the Irish Republic. The self-help aspect of the organisation was fundamental to its sociopolitical agenda to remove the stigma associated with unmarried motherhood and the legal status of illegitimacy, to secure welfare payments for this group and to reframe Irish understandings of what con…
Please Pardon Me for Taking the Liberty’
After the partition of Ireland and the foundation of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, Belfast and Dublin had become capital cities of two new states. For those struggling on the margins, however, this new-found statehood held little practical value. Through a close reading of ‘poverty letters’ written to political and religious leaders, this article explores how people articulated their need as they sought assistance and tried to define…
The Irish Family
The recent Final Report of the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes (January 2021) has received considerable criticism for suggesting that the Irish family was as responsible as the churches and state for the mistreatment of single mothers and their children. This article explores a case of two dead babies in mid-1980s Ireland, one single mother, and a rural family that found itself at the centre of an official inquiry. This case provides a pris…
The gender politics of marriage in Ireland
It is rare that a book's dedication is quite so apposite to its theme as Maria Luddy and Mary O'Dowd's in their new history of marriage, which reads: ‘For Mary Cullen and Margaret MacCurtain who began it all.’ Indeed, they did, and this tour de force is a fitting testament to the significance of that women's history project started in the 1970s, which has ‘paved the way for all of us who engage with Irish gender history’ (p. xiii). Luddy and O'Do…
Léirmheasanna/Reviews
Abortion, emotions, and health provision
This article interrogates health care professionals' (HCPs) decision to withdraw from or provide abortion care using cultural theories of affect and emotion. It argues that emotional reactions to imagined futures influence the actions of health care practitioners. This proposition draws together cultural theory of affect with qualitative evidence from a scoping study of abortion care and Ireland. Our analysis suggests that discussions as to why c…
Mother and child
Letters of the Catholic Poor
This innovative study of poverty in Independent Ireland between 1920 and 1940 is the first to place the poor at its core by exploring their own words and letters. Written to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, their correspondence represents one of the few traces in history of Irish experiences of poverty, and collectively they illuminate the lives of so many during the foundation decades of the Irish state. This book keeps the human element centr…
“Should I Take Myself and Family to Another Religion [?]”
Dear Father my health has broken down’
Journal Article ‘Dear Father my health has broken down’: Writing Health in Irish Charity Letters, 1922–1940 Get access Lindsey Earner-Byrne Lindsey Earner-Byrne * *School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 849–868, https://doi…
Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950 * Irish Women in Medicine c. 1880s-1920s
The Rape of Mary M
The Scars Remain
Books
Reinforcing the family
Irish legislators had to negotiate rigidly defined gender roles, strict moral codes and contradictory sexual behaviour when implementing welfare policy in the early decades of the twentieth-century. Despite traditional and unforgiving attitudes to male and female sexuality, the debates surrounding welfare policy in Ireland reveal a more complex sexual landscape and an overriding concern regarding child protection and family welfare. Faced with re…
Mother and Child
List of Abbreviations Glossary of Irish words List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Maternity and child welfare pre-independence 2 Maternity and child welfare: setting the agenda, 1922-39 3 The Dublin mother: maternal welfare and child health, 1920-40 4 The Emergency: The war, the poor, the church and the state, 1939-45 5 Cracks in the 'cordial collaboration': Political reality and religious principle, 1945-56 6 Maternity on the ground: T…
Managing Motherhood
Journal Article Managing Motherhood: Negotiating a Maternity Service for Catholic Mothers in Dublin, 1930–1954 Get access Lindsey Earner-Byrne Lindsey Earner-Byrne * *School of History and Archives, University College Dublin , Belfield, Dublin 4 , Ireland . E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 261–277, http…
The Boat to England
The Boat to England
Reinforcing the family
Irish legislators had to negotiate rigidly defined gender roles, strict moral codes and contradictory sexual behaviour when implementing welfare policy in the early decades of the twentieth-century. Despite traditional and unforgiving attitudes to male and female sexuality, the debates surrounding welfare policy in Ireland reveal a more complex sexual landscape and an overriding concern regarding child protection and family welfare. Faced with re…
Abortion, emotions, and health provision
This article interrogates health care professionals' (HCPs) decision to withdraw from or provide abortion care using cultural theories of affect and emotion. It argues that emotional reactions to imagined futures influence the actions of health care practitioners. This proposition draws together cultural theory of affect with qualitative evidence from a scoping study of abortion care and Ireland. Our analysis suggests that discussions as to why c…
The Irish Family
The recent Final Report of the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes (January 2021) has received considerable criticism for suggesting that the Irish family was as responsible as the churches and state for the mistreatment of single mothers and their children. This article explores a case of two dead babies in mid-1980s Ireland, one single mother, and a rural family that found itself at the centre of an official inquiry. This case provides a pris…
The Rape of Mary M
The Scars Remain
The gender politics of marriage in Ireland
It is rare that a book's dedication is quite so apposite to its theme as Maria Luddy and Mary O'Dowd's in their new history of marriage, which reads: ‘For Mary Cullen and Margaret MacCurtain who began it all.’ Indeed, they did, and this tour de force is a fitting testament to the significance of that women's history project started in the 1970s, which has ‘paved the way for all of us who engage with Irish gender history’ (p. xiii). Luddy and O'Do…
Dear Father my health has broken down’
Journal Article ‘Dear Father my health has broken down’: Writing Health in Irish Charity Letters, 1922–1940 Get access Lindsey Earner-Byrne Lindsey Earner-Byrne * *School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 849–868, https://doi…
Managing Motherhood
Journal Article Managing Motherhood: Negotiating a Maternity Service for Catholic Mothers in Dublin, 1930–1954 Get access Lindsey Earner-Byrne Lindsey Earner-Byrne * *School of History and Archives, University College Dublin , Belfield, Dublin 4 , Ireland . E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 261–277, http…
The Boat to England
Managing Motherhood
Journal Article Managing Motherhood: Negotiating a Maternity Service for Catholic Mothers in Dublin, 1930–1954 Get access Lindsey Earner-Byrne Lindsey Earner-Byrne * *School of History and Archives, University College Dublin , Belfield, Dublin 4 , Ireland . E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 261–277, http…
Mother and Child
List of Abbreviations Glossary of Irish words List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Maternity and child welfare pre-independence 2 Maternity and child welfare: setting the agenda, 1922-39 3 The Dublin mother: maternal welfare and child health, 1920-40 4 The Emergency: The war, the poor, the church and the state, 1939-45 5 Cracks in the 'cordial collaboration': Political reality and religious principle, 1945-56 6 Maternity on the ground: T…
Reinforcing the family
Irish legislators had to negotiate rigidly defined gender roles, strict moral codes and contradictory sexual behaviour when implementing welfare policy in the early decades of the twentieth-century. Despite traditional and unforgiving attitudes to male and female sexuality, the debates surrounding welfare policy in Ireland reveal a more complex sexual landscape and an overriding concern regarding child protection and family welfare. Faced with re…
Books
The Rape of Mary M
The Scars Remain
“Should I Take Myself and Family to Another Religion [?]”
Dear Father my health has broken down’
Journal Article ‘Dear Father my health has broken down’: Writing Health in Irish Charity Letters, 1922–1940 Get access Lindsey Earner-Byrne Lindsey Earner-Byrne * *School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 4, November 2015, Pages 849–868, https://doi…
Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950 * Irish Women in Medicine c. 1880s-1920s
Mother and child
Letters of the Catholic Poor
This innovative study of poverty in Independent Ireland between 1920 and 1940 is the first to place the poor at its core by exploring their own words and letters. Written to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, their correspondence represents one of the few traces in history of Irish experiences of poverty, and collectively they illuminate the lives of so many during the foundation decades of the Irish state. This book keeps the human element centr…
Abortion, emotions, and health provision
This article interrogates health care professionals' (HCPs) decision to withdraw from or provide abortion care using cultural theories of affect and emotion. It argues that emotional reactions to imagined futures influence the actions of health care practitioners. This proposition draws together cultural theory of affect with qualitative evidence from a scoping study of abortion care and Ireland. Our analysis suggests that discussions as to why c…
Léirmheasanna/Reviews
Please Pardon Me for Taking the Liberty’
After the partition of Ireland and the foundation of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State, Belfast and Dublin had become capital cities of two new states. For those struggling on the margins, however, this new-found statehood held little practical value. Through a close reading of ‘poverty letters’ written to political and religious leaders, this article explores how people articulated their need as they sought assistance and tried to define…
The Irish Family
The recent Final Report of the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes (January 2021) has received considerable criticism for suggesting that the Irish family was as responsible as the churches and state for the mistreatment of single mothers and their children. This article explores a case of two dead babies in mid-1980s Ireland, one single mother, and a rural family that found itself at the centre of an official inquiry. This case provides a pris…
The gender politics of marriage in Ireland
It is rare that a book's dedication is quite so apposite to its theme as Maria Luddy and Mary O'Dowd's in their new history of marriage, which reads: ‘For Mary Cullen and Margaret MacCurtain who began it all.’ Indeed, they did, and this tour de force is a fitting testament to the significance of that women's history project started in the 1970s, which has ‘paved the way for all of us who engage with Irish gender history’ (p. xiii). Luddy and O'Do…
Gendering the Mixed Economies of Welfare
The Introduction explains the usefulness of the term “mixed economy of welfare”, the crucial role of gender in its formation and the different meanings of “postwar” in the national case studies included in the special issue. It also previews the six articles of the issue and highlights the often unexpected similarities between them
I felt I should be there, all these people talking on my behalf without consulting me”
In the early 1970s, Cherish, the first support and advocacy group for unmarried mothers run by unmarried mothers, emerged into the mixed economy of welfare in the Irish Republic. The self-help aspect of the organisation was fundamental to its sociopolitical agenda to remove the stigma associated with unmarried motherhood and the legal status of illegitimacy, to secure welfare payments for this group and to reframe Irish understandings of what con…
Encountering modern Irish history
Ireland’s historical coordinates are shifting, prompting a re-examination of national narratives and of the assumptions and anxieties that have kept them in place. Increasingly, stories that disturb rather than coalesce with grand narratives are the focus of historical study, revealing the structural violence used to maintain societal order. This article argues that tending to bigger questions about power and smaller ones about human experience c…
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