Add to ORKGThousands of women working as prostitutes roamed the streets of the towns and cities of Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While there was a common belief that prostitution was an inevitable feature of life, especially where military garrisons existed, as long as prostitutes remained out of the public eye they were tolerated. It was most often their visibility that caused anxiety in the wider public. Prostitutes were believed to be the main source of venereal disease infection, and prostitution itself was believed to be contagious. In 1809 the women prisoners confined for debt in the Four Courts Marshalsea in Dublin, fearing moral and physical contagion, complained about having to mix with ‘women of the town (some from...
Political violence was a fact of Irish life in the early twentieth century, exacerbated by the sacri...
International audienceCovering the period from the 1850s until the eve of World War I, this book exa...
© 1986 Margaret ArnotThe later decades of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth cent...
This article examines the extent of prostitution in nineteenth-century Ireland. It centres on the pr...
This exploratory research examines the barriers that prevent women in prostitution in Ireland from a...
This article examines the lifestyle of a particular group of women who operated as prostitutes and w...
rish women played an important role in voluntary charity work in 19th-century Ireland. Initially the...
Prostitution has been closely associated with the transportation of women convicts to British penal ...
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nin...
This book examines the role of women in philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author focus...
As in Europe generally, there was a spectacular range of sexual relationships in 19th century Irelan...
This presentation examines how elites viewed prostitutes in eighteenth-century London. Much of the e...
This cognate essay examines prostitutes and prostitution in Hamilton from 1879 to 1886. It contends ...
Since historians first began to mine the records of the 160,000 men, women and children who were tra...
The Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869 allowed policemen to arrest prostitutes in ports...
Political violence was a fact of Irish life in the early twentieth century, exacerbated by the sacri...
International audienceCovering the period from the 1850s until the eve of World War I, this book exa...
© 1986 Margaret ArnotThe later decades of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth cent...
This article examines the extent of prostitution in nineteenth-century Ireland. It centres on the pr...
This exploratory research examines the barriers that prevent women in prostitution in Ireland from a...
This article examines the lifestyle of a particular group of women who operated as prostitutes and w...
rish women played an important role in voluntary charity work in 19th-century Ireland. Initially the...
Prostitution has been closely associated with the transportation of women convicts to British penal ...
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nin...
This book examines the role of women in philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author focus...
As in Europe generally, there was a spectacular range of sexual relationships in 19th century Irelan...
This presentation examines how elites viewed prostitutes in eighteenth-century London. Much of the e...
This cognate essay examines prostitutes and prostitution in Hamilton from 1879 to 1886. It contends ...
Since historians first began to mine the records of the 160,000 men, women and children who were tra...
The Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869 allowed policemen to arrest prostitutes in ports...
Political violence was a fact of Irish life in the early twentieth century, exacerbated by the sacri...
International audienceCovering the period from the 1850s until the eve of World War I, this book exa...
© 1986 Margaret ArnotThe later decades of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth cent...