Desmond Doyle
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Desmond Doyle was an Irish worker whose children were taken into care when his wife left him in the 1950s. He fought a legal battle to regain custody of them, and this required overturning the provisions of the Irish Children's Act, which did not allow for a father to care for his own children in the absence of their mother (unless she was living and gave written permission for him to do so), and a case presented in the Irish Supreme Court in which it was claimed that the Children's Act contravened several sections of the Irish Constitution.
These events have been recorded in a film, Evelyn, starring Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies and Sophie Vavasseur, and directed by Bruce Beresford.
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