#OTD in 1997 – After a contentious court battle contesting the referendum, the new divorce law in the Republic is enacted.

27/02/2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

The amendment was narrowly approved by 50.23 percent of the voters — a 9,118-ballot margin out of 1.6 million cast. The first divorce in Ireland, granted to a terminally ill man who wished to marry his new partner, was a harbinger of the decline of the Catholic Church’s power over the Republic. Fears that divorce […]

#OTD in Irish History | 26 November:

26/11/2022.Reading time 6 minutes.

1594 – Birth of historian and genealogist, James Ware, in Dublin. 1624 – Birth in Dublin of John Stearne, founder and first president of the College of Physicians. 1651 – Death of Henry Ireton, Cromwell’s Son-in-Law. Henry Ireton was effectively Cromwell’s Commander-in-Chief in Ireland. Shortly after the Siege of Limerick ended (27 October) Ireton took […]

#OTD in 1997 – After a contentious court battle contesting the referendum, the new divorce law in the Republic is enacted.

27/02/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

#OTD in Irish History | 26 November:

26/11/2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

#OTD in 1997 – After a contentious court battle contesting the referendum, the new divorce law in the Republic is enacted.

27/02/2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

The amendment was narrowly approved by 50.23 percent of the voters — a 9,118-ballot margin out of 1.6 million cast. Fears that divorce would lead to the end of family life in Ireland have proven unfounded, according to ‘One Family’, the organisation that supports people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and separating. Reflecting on the anniversary […]