Women and paid work in Ireland, 1500–1930

Bernadette Whelan, editor

Preface
Bernadette Whelan

Women and work: an overview
Maria Luddy

Women and paid work in rural Ireland c.1500–1800
Mary O'Dowd

Women and business in eighteenth-century Dublin: a case study
Catherine Cox

The female industrial movement 1845–1852
Maura Cronin

Child care arrangements within the Belfast linen community, 1890–1930
Jonathan Hamil

Matrons in Mountjoy Female Convict Prison, 1858–1883
Rena Lohan

The nineteenth-century governess: image and reality
Deirdre Raftery

'Flower power and mental grooviness': nurses and midwives in the early twentieth century
Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh

Women in the medical profession in Ireland
Irene Finn