The history women / Joan Thirsk -- A woman in history : Eileen Power and the early years of social history and women's history / Maxine Berg -- 'Scolding old bags and whining hags' : the myth of compatible paradigms in history / Maria Grever -- Late in the field : Catholic sisters in twentieth-century Ireland and the new religious history / Margaret MacCurtain -- Women and the law in early Ireland / Donnchadh Ó Corráin -- The Lex innocentium : Adomnán's law for women, clerics and youths, 697 A.D. / Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha -- The Banshenchas revisted / Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin -- Women, the church and the law : matrimonial litigation in Lucca under Bishop Nicolao Guinigi (1394-1435) / Christine Meek -- 'Almost a gentlewoman' : gender and adolescence in the diary of Mary Shackleton / Kevin O'Neill -- The roles of royal and aristocratic women in British politics, c. 1782-1832 / P.J. Jupp -- Jolies femmes/feisty women : the images of Edouard de Beaumont / Laura Strumingher Schor -- Writing for the birds, women founders of the Society for the Protection of Birds / Barbara T. Gates -- Jane Addams and the Great Railway Strike of 1894 : towards a [reconstructed] universalist ethic / Marian Yeates -- Neither feminist nor flapper : the ecclesiastical construction of the ideal Irish woman / Maryann Valiulis -- 'The women can not be blamed' : the Commission on Vocational Organisation, Femminism and 'Home-makers' in Independent Ireland in the 1930s and '40s / Caitriona Clear -- Emigration and gender : the case of Ireland 1922-60 / Pauric Travers -- Dark lady of the archives : towards an analysis of women and emigration to North America in Irish folklore / Grace Neville -- 'Fanaticsm and excess' or 'the defense of just causes' : the International Labour Organisation and women's protective legislation in the inter-war years / Mary E. Daly -- Gender ideologies, social experts and immigrant women in early post-World War Two Canada : Ontario, 1940s-'60s / Franca Iacovetta -- Women in Northern Ireland / Catherine B. Shannon -- Comparative analysis of abortion in Ireland, Poland and the United States / Joan Hoff -- Women and citizenship in the European Union / Elizabeth Meehan.