Introduction
1. ‘A melancholy thing’: an overview
2. ‘Dead children, like drowned sailors, tell no tales’: coroners’
courts
3. ‘That species of crime’: criminal courts
4. ‘Rumor, with its hundred tongues’: the community
5. ‘News of the ghastly spectacle’: the press
6. ‘A very great escape’: prisons
Conclusion
Index
Elaine Farrell is Lecturer in Modern Irish Economic and Social History at Queen's University Belfast
Elaine Farrell’s richly detailed and compelling analysis of these
cases provides readers with a vivid insight into Irish society and
culture in this period, paying particular attention to the nuances
of gender and class as factors in shaping individual lives.
Farrell has produced a meticulous and well-written study that
deserves a wide audience, and will undoubtedly be of immense
benefit to all those interested in the histories of gender, crime
and childhood. Accessible, nuanced and engaging, ‘A most diabolical
deed’ will prove an essential addition to reading lists for both
undergraduate and postgraduate modules dealing with gender and
criminal justice, as well as to broader surveys of nineteenth
century Britain and Ireland.
, Daniel J.R. Grey, Plymouth University, SOLON: 2013 (3),
2013|Elaine Farrell’s book is a very important addition to the
growing literature on Irish women’s history in the modern period.,
Brian Griffin, Bath Spa University, Irish Studies Review 22.4
November 2014, 1 November 2014
‘A meticulously researched and well written work on a grisly
subject.’
Oliver Rafferty, Boston College, Journal of Ecclesiastical
History
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