In 1971, a woman in Ireland could not, in effect, sit on a jury – that privilege belonged to registered property owners who were almost exclusively male. She could not, if she was a civil servant or worked in a bank, keep her job when she got married. She could not buy contraceptives (unless the Pill was misprescribed as a ‘cycle regulator’). She could not buy a pint of Guinness in a pub – some pubs refused to allow women to enter at all
