Abandoned women and bad characters: Prostitution in nineteenth-century Ireland

Women's History Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 485-504

  Luddy, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1080/09612029700200157     Document Type: Review

References (38)

1. Quoted in Gregory Allen (1977) The new police: London and Dublin, The Police Journal, 1(4), pp. 307-308.
2. William Logan (1871) The Great Social Evil: its causes, extent, results and remedies, pp. 48-52 (London: Hodder and Stoughton).
3. Evidence of the Rev. Maguire, Royal Commission on the Administration and Operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1866-1869, H.C. 1871, (c.408-1), xix, Q. 18,770.
4. Logan, Great Social Evil, p. 95.
5. Judicial and Criminal Statistics for Ireland, 1871, 1886, 1901.
6. Judicial and Criminal Statistics for Ireland, Ibid., 1872.
7. See, Maria Luddy, Prostitution and rescue work in nineteenth-century Ireland, in Maria Luddy & Cliona Murphy (Eds) (1990) Women Surviving: studies in Irish women's history in the 19th and 20th centuries, pp. 51-84 (Dublin: Poolbeg Press).
8. Annual Report of the Commissioners for Administering the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland, H.C. 1854-1855 (1945), xxiv.
9. Quoted in W. S. Mason (1814-1819) A Statistical Account or Parochial Survey of Ireland, 3 vols, iii, p. 79 (Dublin).
10. Isaac Weld (1832) Statistical Survey of the County of Roscommon, p. 407 (Dublin).
11. Freeman's Journal, 30 July 1855; 5 June 1857; 5 May 1880. My thanks to Dr Brian Griffin for these references.
12. Evidence of Mr Rawton McNamara, Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1881 (351), viii, Q.8472.
13. For the operation and resistance to the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs) in England see, J. R. Walkowitz (1980) Prostitution and Victorian Society: women, class and the state (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
14. Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 48 (November 1869), p. 625.
15. See, Maria Luddy (1992) Women and the Contagious Diseases Acts in Ireland, History Ireland, 1(1), pp. 32-34.
16. For the lives of Tod and Haslam see, Mary Cullen & Maria Luddy (Eds) (1995) Women, Power and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: eight biographical studies, pp. 161-230 (Dublin: Attic Press).
17. Evidence of the Rev, Maguire, Royal Commission on the Administration . of the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1871, Q. 18,798.
18. T. J. Haslam (1870), A Few Words on Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts (Dublin: Webb & Son).
19. To the Members of the Belfast Committee for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts (Belfast, 1878), p. 1.
20. Annual Report, Dublin White Cross Vigilance Association, 1898.
21. The Vigilance Record (April 1888), p. 35.
22. The Vigilance Record, Ibid., (April 1891).
23. Edward J. Bristow (1977) Vice and Vigilance:purity movements in Britain since 1700, pp. 104, 163 (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan). These claims are probably exaggerated. The Mecklenburg street area was a notorious red light district in the city. The police rarely interfered in the business conducted in this area and it was only with the campaign organised by Frank Duff and the Legion of Mary in 1921 that prostitution declined in this district. This area was known as 'Monto' and became even more widely known as James Joyce's 'Nighttown' in Ulysses.
24. Freeman's Journal, 14 September 1866.
25. Dublin Hospitals Commission: report of the committee of inquiry, H.C. 1887, xxxv, [c.5042], p. 94.
26. Limerick Chronicle, 9 July 1836.
27. See, Maria Luddy (1992, An outcast community: the "wrens" of the Curragh, Women 's History Review, 1(3), pp. 341-355.
28. Report of the Ranger of the Curragh, 25 November 1859, Office of Public Works, National Archives, Dublin.
29. For the work of Lady Denny in the Foundling Hospital see Joseph Robins, The Lost Children: a study of charity children in Ireland, 1700-1900, Ch. 2 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration).
30. See, Maria Luddy (1995) Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Ch. 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
31. Annual Report, Dublin Female Penitentiary (1814), p. 6.
32. Abstract Report and Statisical Sketch of the Magdalen Asylum, High Park, Drumcondra (1881) (Dublin), p. 17.
33. Guide for the Religious Called Sisters of Mercy (1866) (London), p. 58.
34. Guide for the Religious Called Sisters of Mercy, Ibid., p. 60.
35. Luddy, Philanthropy, p. 127.
36. Luddy, 'Prostitution', pp. 71-75.
37. B. J. Graham & L. Proudfoot (Eds) (1993) An Historical Geography of Ireland, pp. 158484 (London: Academic Press).
38. Tom Inglis (1987) Moral Monopoly: the Catholic church in modern Irish society (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan).