1. T. McCashin (1982) ‘Social Policy: 1957–82’, in F. Litton (ed.), Unequal Achievement: The Irish Experience, 1957–1982 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration), p. 206.
2. C. Ó Gráda, (1997) A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy since the 1920s (Manchester: Manchester University Press), p. 69.
3. Irish Women’s Liberation Movement, Irishwomen: Chains or Change? (1972).
4. P. Ryan (2012) Asking Angela Macnamara: An Intimate History of Irish Lives (Dublin: Irish Academic Press), p. 96.
5. These pioneering works are outlined by H. B. Biller (1970) ‘Father Absence and the Personality Development of the Male Child’, Developmental Psychology, 2, 2, pp. 181–201.