***Content Warning: this post includes an historical account of domestic violence. The legal sources underpinning Law versus Practice contain a large number of women’s names and provide relevant biographical information on them. By assigning a unique ID to every woman we add to the database, we can create distinct biographical profiles and uncover the networks…

It has been a busy few months for Law versus Practice, as the project team have been working on primary sources and existing datasets to supply the database. This involves thinking about the way we want to categorise information in order to conduct a gender analysis. It also involves A LOT of data cleaning (oh…

As the headline suggests, Law versus Practice is up and running! The project has been active since October 2023 and it has been a busy few months. After an interview process, I was joined on the team by Eoghan Fitzgerald, who is undertaking a PhD on Catholic families in the Registry of Deeds (ROD). Eoghan…