Irish Fatherhood in the Twentieth Century

Purvis, Dara E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02638-7_10

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“…84 While fathers could be viewed with sympathy, more often destitute widowed fathers were portrayed as 'wretched' and 'savage' and their children as 'sadly neglected'. 85 The treatment of widowers or deserted fathers reflected dominant gender assumptions of the time and men were often treated with suspicion. Buckley when looking at cases in the files of the NSPCC involving widowers has noted two apparent issues: 'a mistrust of fathers being left with daughters, and the related problematisation of the absence of a woman in the home'.…”

Section: Parental Death and Desertionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It Gives Great Relief to My Mind’ – Family Involvement at Children's Committal to the Sister of Mercy run Irish Industrial Schools, 1868–1936

O’Brien

2023

Journal of Family History

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This paper uses convent archive sources from five Irish Sisters of Mercy run industrial schools to examine the role of children's families at committal to the schools and explore how the sociocultural climate of Ireland at the time formed this experience. Such an analysis sheds light on the system's operation ‘from below’ and the variety of reasons, motivations, and emotions surrounding the committal process. It reveals the complicated nature of familial relations and facilitates a greater understanding of the behaviours, responses and protocols that arose from poverty and dependency. In doing so, it also progresses understandings of the power of those in control to influence such decisions as well as families' attempts to use the system as a strategy for survival.

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Section: Parental Death and Desertionmentioning

confidence: 99%