Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

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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