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Sat 08 Aug 2010Hemlines and the Hierarchy

HISTORY: COLIN MURPHYreviews A Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern Irelandby Maurice Curtis, The History Press, 256pp, €16.99

THE BOOKLET’S title was unintentionally suggestive: Wanted – A New Woman. But this was neither a call to feminist action nor an extended lonely hearts ad.