A Woman’s Place is the story of women’s life in the home, which for many involved dependency. The Irish Revolution promised equality. However what many women experienced was containment. Their home was where their father lived, or their husband, or with a religious order. If a woman didn’t marry and became pregnant she could be placed in a mother and baby home or a Magdalene Laundry or an asylum. Or she could emigrate and find a home elsewhere. Why would a new country founded on a vision of equality create laws that benefitted men in the home but not women? Was the aim to preserve the physical State at all costs, even if that meant denying women full citizenship and the breaking of Proclamation promises?