Rite & Reason: The average age at marriage is now markedly higher than in the days of The Vanishing Irish. Or is marriage vanishing?
Rite & Reason: The average age at marriage is now markedly higher than in the days of The Vanishing Irish. Or is marriage vanishing?The Irish economy, which appears robust at the moment, is supporting a population that could only have been dreamed of by the authors of The Vanishing Irish. Photograph: Agency StockSeventy years ago, in 1954, a book entitled The Vanishing Irish was published by a leading London publisher.
Patrick Noonan, a Holy Ghost priest, suggested the introduction of marriage and family allowances financed by “a system of graded taxation” affecting old maids and bachelors . Carroll claimed that while the Irishman is not materialistic, the Irish woman is materialistic “under the alluring veils and the sweet petticoats and the doelike eyes”.
A few years earlier, a commission had been established to investigate what was happening. The Commission on Emigration and other Population Problems produced a splendid report that was published in 1954, the same year as The Vanishing Irish. When the commission reported, the average age at marriage in Ireland was 28.0 for women and 33.1 for men. In 2023 the average age at marriage was 35.8 for women and 37.7 for men in opposite-sex marriages, and 38.0 for women and 40.8 for men in same-sex marriages.
Regardless of the social context of births, population has soared. When those texts were published, Ireland’s population was under three million; now it is more than five million.
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