Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "Unmarried Fathers"
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Migration and assistance: Irish unmarried mothers in Britain, 1926-1973
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-06)From 1926 to 1973, hundreds of women travelled from Ireland to Britain each year to escape the shame of unmarried motherhood in their community. As previous scholars have shown, pregnancy outside of marriage was stigmatised ...