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Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Pamphlets on the Irish Poor Laws
Author: A History of the Scotch Poor Law
Author: Sir George NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A History of the Irish Poor Law
Author: Sir George NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Politics, Pauperism and Power in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Author: Virginia CrossmanPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719073779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This work will be essential reading for social and political historians of nineteenth-century Ireland. It is the first academic study to explore the meanings of poverty, destitution and respectability in post-famine Ireland through the institution of the poor law, and is an original in content and interpretation. Previous works have focussed either on the relief system or on political developments. This book analyses poor law administration from a social and a political perspective. There is currently renewed interest in the English poor law of 1834, on which the Irish poor law was modelled. This book will provide historians of poverty and welfare, with an important comparative dimension
Extracts from a pamphlet on the present state of the Irish Poor, by J. O'Flynn ... To which is added, The means of profitable employment for the whole population, both of England and Ireland
Author: James O'FLYNNTownlands in Poor Law Unions
Author: Welfare's Forgotten Past
Author: Lorie CharlesworthPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135179638
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
That ‘poor law was law’ is a fact that has slipped from the consciousness of historians of welfare in England and Wales, and in North America. Welfare's Forgotten Past remedies this situation by tracing the history of the legal right of the settled poor to relief when destitute. Poor law was not simply local custom, but consisted of legal rights, duties and obligations that went beyond social altruism. This legal ‘truth’ is, however, still ignored or rejected by some historians, and thus ‘lost’ to social welfare policy-makers. This forgetting or minimising of a legal, enforceable right to relief has not only led to a misunderstanding of welfare’s past; it has also contributed to the stigmatisation of poverty, and the emergence and persistence of the idea that its relief is a 'gift' from the state. Documenting the history and the effects of this forgetting, whilst also providing a ‘legal’ history of welfare, Lorie Charlesworth argues that it is timely for social policy-makers and reformists – in Britain, the United States and elsewhere – to reconsider an alternative welfare model, based on the more positive, legal aspects of welfare’s 400-year legal history.
Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works
Author: Rena LohanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780707603797
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Records of the Office of Public Works more than 30 years old have been transferred to the National Archives, Dublin. The types of public works records are described, then listed with call numbers.
Irish Historical Pamphlets
Author: The Irish Poor Law Rating as it Affects Tithe Rent-charge Property
Author: F. W. H. Petrie (Captain.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 12
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