Author: Virginia Crossman
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780716530893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a ground-breaking history of poverty and welfare in modern Ireland, in the era of the Irish poor law. As the first study to address poor relief and health care together, the book fills an important gap, providing a much-needed introduction and assessment of the evolution of social welfare in 19th- and early 20th-century Ireland. The collection also addresses a number of related issues, including private philanthropy, the attitudes of landowners towards poor relief, and the crisis of the poor law during the Great Famine of 1845-1850. Together, these interlinking contributions both survey current research and suggest new areas for investigation, providing further stimulus to the growing field of Irish welfare history.
Author: Peter Higginbotham
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 0752477196
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of the workhouse and of the poor relief system in which it played a pivotal part. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's best-known experts on the subject, this A-Z cornucopia covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Work-houses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse locations throughout the British Isles, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike. Where was my local workhouse? What records did they keep? What is gruel and is it really what inmates lived on? How did you get out of a workhouse? What famous people were once workhouse inmates? Are there any workhouse buildings I can visit? If these are the kinds of questions you've ever wanted to know the answer to, then this is the book for you.
Author: Virginia Crossman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1846319412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Poverty and the Poor Law in Ireland' provides a detailed and comprehensive assessment of the ideological basis and practical operation of the poor law system in the post-famine period in Ireland.
Author: Seamus Deane
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 1548
ISBN-13: 9780814799062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. R. Hill
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2003-12-04
Total Pages: 1142
ISBN-13: 0191543462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume VII covers a period of major significance in Ireland's history. It outlines the division of Ireland and the eventual establishment of the Irish Republic. It provides comprehensive coverage of political developments, north and south, as well as offering chapters on the economy, literature in English and Irish, the Irish language, the visual arts, emigration and immigration, and the history of women. The contributors to this volume, all specialists in their field, provide the most comprehensive treatment of these developments of any single-volume survey of twentieth-century Ireland.
Author: Virginia Crossman
Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780947897024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robin F. Haines
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-09-12
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1349257044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robin Haines has analysed the origins, occupations, literacy, and mobilization of emigrants recruited in the UK on behalf of colonial legislatures. Her exploration of strict selection procedures shows that the symbiosis between the clergy, empire-minded philanthropic societies, and parishes, which combined to fund the emigrants' considerable pre-departure expenses, increased the opportunities for underemployed rural and domestic workers during an era of farm rationalization and industrial restructuring. Although poor, hybrid state and private funding enabled them to relocate to Australia where their skills were in demand.
Author: Iain Hutchison
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-04-12
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1526145707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments are addressed in a variety of contexts.