The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland

A Social Revolution Begins

Sonja Tiernan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2021
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6078-2 (ISBN)

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Tracing the campaign for marriage equality, this book highlights how this movement and the related referendum result have propelled Ireland from a country perceived as one repressed and controlled by the Catholic church to a country that is now admired as a leader in equality of human rights. -- .

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw record numbers turn out to register their votes including Irish emigrants who returned from around the world to ensure an impressive majority in favour of this constitutional amendment. The overwhelming positive result marked a clear separation of church and State for possibly the first time in Ireland. The Yes Equality campaign ignited a social revolution across Ireland, witnessed more recently with further referenda decriminalising abortion and introducing a less punitive regime for obtaining a divorce.

Utilising published reports, newspaper articles, marriage equality papers and extracts from Dáil debates, this book traces the key legislative and social changes surrounding Irish marriage equality, from the establishment of the advocacy group in 2008 to the referendum on the extension of civil marriage rights to same-sex couples in Ireland in 2015. With a foreword by Ivana Bacik, a Senator and Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin, best known for her tireless work defending human rights, this book offers a concise historical record of the momentous referendum on marriage equality. -- .

Sonja Tiernan is the Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies and co-director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago -- .

Introduction
1 Irish Historical and Global Context
2 The Path to the High Court
3 Civil Partnership Bills
4 Marriage Equality a New Direction
5 Political Lobbying, the Media & Influencing Public Opinion
6 Meeting the Challenges of the Twenty First Century
7 Preparing for a Revolution
8 Yes Equality
9 The Campaign in Action
10 The Final Hurdles
11 The Referendum
Afterword: Future Directions
Bibliography
Appendix
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	23.08.2021
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	231 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5261-6078-1 / 1526160781
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-6078-2 / 9781526160782
Zustand	Neuware