Lynsey Black

Lynsey Black

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Lynsey Black is an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. Her IRC-funded project looks at capital punishment in Ireland and Scotland from 1864 to 1914. Her PhD, which she completed at Trinity College Dublin in 2016, explored women sentenced to death in Ireland post-Independence.

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Male Jealousy & Questions of Sexual Honor: A Look at Historical Cases of Domestic Murder in Ireland

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At present in Ireland, a Domestic Violence Bill is rumbling its way through the Irish parliament, a welcome albeit overdue development. Louise Crowley has noted that failures to enshrine domestic violence as a discrete criminal offense have gone hand-in-hand with Ireland’s historic reluctance to intervene in such cases. A look at gendered violence in Ireland,… Read more →