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5. Pat O’Connor, ‘The Irish patriarchal state: continuity and change’, pp. 143–64 in Maura Adshead, Peadar Kirby and Michelle Millar (eds), Contesting the State: Lessons from the Irish case (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008).