Index
abortion, 43, 45
Belfast, 145
COSC classification of, 285
England, 280
methods of procurement, 43
self-induced, 74
Abortion Act (Britain, 1967), 75
abortionists, 35
age of consent, 3
Anderson, Mary, 223
anti-Semitism, 36
Any Wife or Any Husband, 48
Association for the Protection of Irish Family Life, 265
Bagwell, John Philip, 32
Billings Method, , 100, 106, 271, 282, 310
Billings, Evelyn, 104
Billings, John, 104
usage statistics, 89
Bermingham, Bridget, 249
Blake’s Medical Stores, 31
Bolt, Margaret, 189
Bonnar, John, 310
Boylan, Peter, 320
Branson, Richard, 305
Bray family planning clinic, 184
British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Dublin, 228
British Drughouses Ltd, 33
Brocklebank, Charles, 34
Buchanan, Alan, 167
C & G Kearsley, 31
Callan, Joseph, 165
Calvary Hospital, Galway, 319
Carrigy, Alicia, 243
Cathal Brugha Street Family Planning Centre, 303
Catholic Church, 8
approved contraception, 179
ban on contraception, 65
contraception as a threat, 282
devotional activities, 70
evolution of attitudes, 262
Galway Novena, 309
hierarchy, 4
international beliefs, 151
political resistence to, 199
resistence to,
Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, 90, 200
A Catholic View of Sex and Marriage, 92
Beginning Your Marriage, 91
Family Planning, 91
natural family planning centres, 90
The Infertile Period, 92
Catholic Marriage Advisory Service, 198
Catholic Social Welfare Bureau, 89
Censorship Board
High Court case, 93
Chappell, Grant, 196
Christian Political Action Movement, 286
Christus Rex Congress, 89
Clane Hospital, 320
Clann Project, 13
Clarke, Kathleen, 32
Cleary, James A., 54
Cleary, Michael, 248
Cloyne Report, 159
Cochran, Robin, 187
Colley, George, 233
Commission for the Status of Women, 235
Committee on Evil Literature (1926), 2
Concerned Doctors Group, 286
condoms, 100, 103, 107
access to, 112
advertising, 31
availability, 112
clandestine delivery, 119
family redistribution, 119
on prescription, 86
slot machines (England), 118
smuggled home, 118
Conlon, Evelyn, 237
Conlon, Michael, 200
Connacht Tribune, 37
contraception, 298
advertisements, 3
as a sin, 180
ban, 8
criminalisation, 29
introduction, 7
key methods, 65
limited sale of, 8
main forms, 88
mental health,
natural methods, , 100
postal service, 205
preferred forms,
prohibition of, 32
public rejection of, 164
reduction in prosecutions, 38
unlawful activity,
usage statistics, 110
Contraception Action Programme, 143, 222, 242
‘Festival of Contraception’, 256
membership gender composition, 242
militancy, 243
radical strategies, 246
Women’s Health Information Shop, 257
contraceptive pill, 28, 88, 93, 103
absolution for taking, 176
coercive access methods, 144
compassionate GPs,
decision from Rome, 138
first prescription availability, 130
husband interception of, 149
late-1960s usage data, 132
medical indecision, 139
Poland, 132
Portugal, 132
possible side effects, 141
stigma, 140
Coombe Lying-in Hospital, 135
Cooney, Patrick, 10
Cork family planning clinic, 184, 188
attendance rates, 215
church condemnation, 214
clerical opposition, 198
Council for Research and Development, 169
Council for the Status of Women, 293
Cribben, Mena, 200
cross-generational attitudes, , 95
Crowley, Patrick J., 250
Cullen, Mary, 69
Cullinan, Donal, 264
cultural influences, 54
Curran, Gerry, 304
Customs and Excise, 48
Dáil Éireann, 300
Dalkon Shield case, 312
Darragh, Nial, 286
Dating for Young Catholics, 68
de Burca, Máirín, 223
Deignan, Jacinta, 296
diaphragms, 113
Doolan, Leila, 69
Dowding, Paul, 200
Dublin Diocesan Archives, 264
Dublin Ovulation Method Advisory Service, See National Association of the Ovulation Method in Ireland (NAOMI)
Eastern Health Board, 287
Egan, Marguerite, 299
Egan, Ralph, 174
Elliott, Laurine, 189
emigration, 6
Ernst, Siegfried, 280
Evening Press, 266
Experience of Marriage, 193
family
traditional, 97
Family Guidance Company
Family Planning, 220
family planning
access to information, 94
activism, 184
activism in Europe, 240
awareness, 95
England, 121
lack of,
Switzerland, 121
Ukraine, 121
Wales, 121
Family Planning Association (London), 48
Family Planning Distributors, 251
Family Planning Study Group, 185
family size
decisions around,
Family Solidarity
Hogan, Dick, 305
Farrelly, Margaret, 293
fertility control methods, 45
Fertility Guidance Company, 7, 49, 134, 136, 205, 273, See also Irish Family Planning Association
Family Planning
a guide for parents and prospective parents, 92
First World War, 4
Food and Drugs Administration (US), 280
Fortnight, 135
free secondary school education, 235
Free State
foundation, 2
Freehill, Mary, 244
Freeman’s Journal, 31
Fresh, 305
Gaj, Margaret, 223
Galway Family Planning Clinic, 174
Galway family planning clinic, 184
expansion, 203
foundation, 190
physical opposition to, 202
securing a premises, 201
volunteers, 209
Galway University Hospital, 319
Gay Health Action, 295
gay liberation movement, 222
George’s Surgical Stores, 31
Gilfillan, Kathy, 94
Glick, David, 37
Grant, Charles, 175
Grouse, Christopher, 35
Health (Family Planning Bill) (1978), 285
Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act (2018), 324
Hibernia, 53
Higgins, Michael D., 200
Holmes, Eleanor, 53
Honesty, 29
Hot Press, , 308
humour
breaking taboo,
Humphreys, Alexander
New Dubliners, 23
hysterectomy, 114
International Committee of WOOMB (World Organisation for the Ovulation Method-Billings), 88
intrauterine device, 312
Irish Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, 173
Irish Constitution (1937), 74
Irish Family League, 249, 261, 270, 273, 291
Alert
oral contraceptive, 280
Is Contraception the Answer?, 275
rejection of, 283
Whither Ireland?, 279
Why you should oppose contraception, 281
Irish Family Planning Association, 9, 93, 115, 142, 174, 184, 274, 298
Adolescent Confidential Telephone Line, 305
attendance rates, 212
expansion, 214
Facts on Contraception
an Answer to “The Irish Family League”, 278
Family Planning for Parents and Prospective Parents, 274
garda caution, 274
legal action against,
new name adopted, 187
Synge Street clinic, 313
Young People’s Family Planning Centre, 305
Irish Feminist Review, 258
Irish Guild of Saint Luke, SS Damian and Cosmas, 5
Irish Independent, 11
Irish Medical Association, Irish Nurses Organisation, 245
Irish Medical Council, 301
Irish Medical Journal, 313
Irish Theological Association, 157
Irish Theological Quarterly, 54
Irish Traveller community, 254
Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks
Chemists’ Branch, 34
Irish Women’s Liberation Movement, 7, 49, 69, 134, 145, 176, 222
archbishop’s house protest, 227
church walk-outs, 226
disbandment, 234
Eurovision Song Contest Protest, 228
foundation, 223
Irishwomen Chains or Change, 224
Leinster House protest, 228
Mansion House meeting, 225
Jervis Street Hospital, 139
Jesuit Fathers, 89
Jewish migrants, 36
Johnson, Shirley, 311
Jordan, Sheila, 199
Joyce, William B., 21
Justice for Magdalene Research, 13
Keawell, P.J., 21
Keogh, Sally, 251
Kerry Babies case, 295
Kerry News, 30
Kestelman, Philip, 191
Knaus, Hermann, 101
Knights of Saint Columbanus, 5
Knights of St. Columbanus, 284
Knock Shrine, 222
Kronn, Ivor, 36
Kyusaku, Ogino, 101
Labour Party
Women’s Council, 243
Larragy, Marian, 143
Le Brasseur Surgical MFG Co. Ltd, 30
Leahy, Paddy, 297
Lep Transport Ltd., 33
Limerick family planning clinic, 184, 196
catchment area, 216
clerical opposition, 198
protests against, 204
Shannon stall incident, 206
Limerick Family Planning Clinic, 174
Limerick Rape Crisis Centre, 215
Limrick family planning clinic
popularity growth, 215
Llewllyn-Jones, Derek
Everywoman
a gynaecological guide for life, 92
London Rubber, 206
London Rubber Company, 36
Lucey, Cornelius, 198
Lynch, Bernárd, 166
MacDonald, Dermot, 136
Mackey, Aidan
What is love?, 63
Magdalene laundries, 13
Marie Stopes Foundation, 190
Marist Fathers’
Our Lady’s Family, 62
marital rape, 172
marriage
average age, 54
marriage bar
removal, 98
marriage breakdown, 73
Martin, Rachel, 308
Marx, Paul, 270, 277, 279
criticism of sex education, 288
Human Life Center, 270
Human Life International, 270
Population Research Institution, 270
Maternal Mortality report
1968-9, 227
maternity hospitals, 135
May Roberts, 29
McCutcheon, Mary, 223
McDowell, Vncent, 187
McGee case, 205
McGee, Mary, 8
McGuinness, Catherine, 297
McMahon, Maire, 223
Mcnamara, Angela
My Dear Daughter, 68
Medical Union Conference, 297
Melville, Michael, 187
menopause, 100
Mercer’s Hospital, 186
Messrs. E. Lambert & Son, 42
Mhic Mhathúna, Úna,
Moane, Ger, 235
Moclair Horne, Delia, 52
Modern Youth and Chastity, 68
Monaghan, Nuala, 223
Moore-McCann, Brenda, 302
mother and baby homes, 81
Mothers’ Clinic (Belfast), 44
Mullen, Karl, 125
Murphy, Daniel F., 89
Murray, Barbara, 244
Mylotte, Michael, 319
National Association of the Ovulation Method in Ireland, 271
National Association of the Ovulation Method in Ireland (NAOMI), 88
National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, 324
National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, 263
New Spotlight, 67
Ní Mhurchú, Áine, 267
North Kensington Family Planning Clinic, 186
Northern Ireland Family Planning Association, 210
O’Brien, Jon, 298
O’Driscoll, Kieran, 138
O’Dwyer, Eamon, 320
Ovulation Method Advisory Service, 198
Owens, Evelyn, 72
Papal visit (1979), 174
Parent Concern, Youth Alert, 284
Parent’s Magazine, 87
Pharmacy Bill (1931), 34
Pope Francis, 175
Pope Paul VI, 152
population decline, 6
pregnancy
outside marriage, , 81
Prendeville, Walter, 189
Pro Fide, 286
Probation Act, 33
Pro-Fide Movement, 261
prostitution
penalties for, 3
Protestant women
access to contraception, 45
rape, 3
Rebel Woman, 218
Relationships and Sexuality Programme, 52
religion
influence of, 30
religious influences, 54
religious sacraments
confession, 73
Responsible Society, 306
England, 286
foundation, 286
key concerns, 287
rejection of Family Planning Act, 288
Response, 286
Riches, Valerie, 286
Rettie, Joan, 191
Revenue Commissioners, 48
Robinson
Mary, 7
Roper, Anne
Woman to Woman, 301
Rosenthal, Sam, 37
Royal College of Surgeons, 220
Royal Victoria Hospital, 115
Ryan, Thomas, 222
Savage, Angela, 308
Save our Society, 261
Scott, Patrick, 166
Seaman, Barbara
The doctor’s case against the pill, 240
Second Vatican Council, 162
sex education, 53, 78, 84
animal observation, 60
booklets, 62
Catholic, 55
parent-led, 56
peer-learning, 62
priest-led, 72
sexual health, 51
sexual knowledge, 84
sexual promiscuity, 87
Singh, Hazoor, 37
Singh, Munshi, 37
Sisters of Notre Dame (Liverpool)
My Dear Daughter, 64
Smith, Brendan, 308
social change (1960s-1970s), 263
Socialist Republic, 296
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 290
Society to Outlaw Pornography, 284
Solomons, Bethel, 195
South Eastern Health Board, 250
Spanish Flu (1918), 12
Speed, Anne, 241
spina-bifida, 41
St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, 62
St. Angela’s College, 62
Starowicz, Zbigniew, 156
sterilisation
absolution for, 178
stillbirth, 41
Stokes, Niall, 304
Stopes, Marie, 21, 247, 322
A Letter to Working Mothers, 30
abortion stance,
book ban, 22
Married Love, 38
Radiant Motherhood, 21
Sunday Chronicle article, 41
Stopford Price, Dorothy, 52
Supreme Court
McGee ruling, 9
Syntex Pharmaceuticals, 132
Syntex Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Levin, Ronald, 137
Tablet, The, 158
Telefís Éireann, 69
television
influence, 70
temperature method
Hildebrand, Wilhelm, 104
The Health (Family Planning) Act (1979), 11
Tierney, Niall, 137
Tocher, Jan, 196
Toibin, Colm, 298
Towers, Robert, 185
Tralee Women’s Group, 298
trauma
and childbirth, 26
Trinity College Dublin
Student Union shop, 190
Vancouver Women’s Caucus, 247
Veritas Christi, 284
Victoria Hospital, Cork, 188
Virgin Condom case, 304
Virgin Health Foundation, 305
Virgin Megastore, 12,
Waldron, John, 217
Walsh, Brendan, 187
Watson, Clare, 308
Weekly Public Rosary Movement, 264
Well Woman Centre, 113, 146, 184, 190
aesthetics, 218
empowerment of women, 218
garda visits, 207
protests against, 204
recruitment issues, 202
Wellcome Collection, 38
Western Health Board, 320
Westmeath Independent, 31
Whitehorn Clinic, 320
Whitehouse, Mary
Clean Up TV Campaign, 263
withdrawal method
problems with, 108
Woman, 68
Woman’s Own, 68
Woman’s Way, 51, 58, 78, 87, 104, 148
McEnroy, Monica, 110
O’Sullivan, Sean, 66
problem page analysis, 67
Women’s Aid, 242
Women’s AIM, 317
Women’s Liberation Movement, Ireland, 234
Women’s Political Association, 288
Women’s Right to Choose Group, 258
Women’s Liberation Movement, Ireland
Fownes Street Journal, 234
Woods, Michael, 298
Woods, Moira, 223
Workers’ Party
McManus, John, 320
Working Group on Access to Contraception (2019), 323
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