Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Press, Four Courts
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Portland : Four Courts Press, 2015.
Series:	Nineteenth-Century Ireland Ser.
Subjects:	1800-1899 Charities. Charities > Ireland > History > 19th century. Charities Ireland. Ireland History
Online Access:	Click for online access

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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