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Lindsey Earner-Byrne holds SALI Chair of Irish Gender History at University College Cork. She has published on Irish social, gender and welfare history with an emphasis on the intersections between policy and lived experience. Her most recent book, co-authored with Diane Urquhart, explores the history of abortion focusing on differences and commonalities of experience on the island of Ireland.