Reviews

Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857

“…Everything connected with Catholic marriage was regulated by the Synod of Thurles. 89 He also despaired of governmental ''fair play'' while his 1862 Instruction of Marriage highlighted the ''anathemas of the new divorce courts.'' 90 Following a private conference in 1865, the Irish Catholic hierarchy formulated a response to the commission that was much less constrained than that of 1857, which suggests that Irish divorce reform now seemed like a distinct possibility.…”