Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Press, Four Courts
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Portland : Four Courts Press, 2015.
Series:Nineteenth-Century Ireland Ser.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Charities.
Charities > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Charities
Ireland.
Ireland
Irlande.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title page
  • Other books in this series
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • List of contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Philanthrophy and poor relief before the poor law, 1801-30
  • 2. 'The best relief the poor can receive is from themselves': the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor
  • 3. Charitable loan fund societies in Ireland, c.1820-1914
  • 4. 'The monster misery of Ireland': landlord paternalism and the 1822 famine in the West
  • 5. Charity, paternalism and power on the Clonbrock Estates, County Galway, 1834-44
  • 6. Pecuniary assistance for poverty and emigration: the politics of landed estate management and philanthropy in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland
  • 7. 'Guinness is good for you': experiences in workers' housing and public amenities by the Guinness Brewery and Guinness/Iveagh Trust, 1872-1915
  • 8. 'A person of the second order': the plight of the intellectually disabled in nineteenth-century Ireland
  • 9. 'Saver of the children': the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Ireland, 1889-1921
  • 10. From lace making to social activism: the resourcefulness of campaigning women philanthropists
  • 11. Cultural philanthrophy in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland
  • 12. Doing good and being bad in Victorian Ireland: some literary and evolutionary perspectives
  • Index

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