Occasions of Sin
Diarmaid Ferriter
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Beschreibung
Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in the context of a conservative official morality backed by the Catholic Church and by legislation. The book energetically and originally engages with subjects omitted from the mainstream historical narrative. The breadth of this book and the richness of the source material uncovered make it definitive in its field and a most remarkable work of social history.
Rezensionen
finely judged...compelling...an important and timely book: it is a richly textured history of modern Ireland's complicated attitude to sex...enlists an impressive range of primary sources from public archives to personal memoir to contemporary fiction...the book'
What Ferriter'
It analyses the flaws in the way the Irish saw themselves, and hoped that others would see them... the book adds up to a tremendous feat of documentation which leaves no source of misery unprobed.
A gargantuan study of Irish attitudes to sex and sexuality from famine times until the present day...a work of considerable prowess...as a rigorous, empirical and layered examination of a topic that befuddled Irish people for most of the last century, Ferriter'
Impressively researched and compellingly written...the pretence persisted for many decades that no sex happened in Ireland; the reality was very different. Ferriter'
Finely textured and superbly researched...Ferriter bridges the massive gap between the perceived version of Irish life and the reality that kept intruding. It makes for a fascinating social history.
Vast in scope and dense in detail, it's probably the most comprehensive treatment it's possible to get about a subject that'
A groundbreaking study of the control of sexuality by church and state in twentieth century Ireland...a riveting account...for anyone tempted by the sin of nostalgia, Ferriter'
Kundenbewertungen
sinn fein, the transformation of Ireland, the troubles, catholic, ambiguous republic, taoiseach, Irish history, occasions of sin, ira, Dublin, protestant, Belfast, a nation not a rabble