Charity Philanthropy And Poverty In Ireland
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Author | : Mel Cousins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
In the course of the nineteenth century charity and philanthropy played an important role in Ireland but, with the exception of a number of studies of specific institutions or issues, we currently know rather little about the scope and extent of such voluntary activity for the relief of the poor. Therefore, this chapter seeks to identify central problems concerning the history of charity, philanthropy and poverty in nineteenth century Ireland and focuses on the post-Famine period to about 1914.
Author | : Hugh Cunningham |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1998-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349266817 |
The essays in this volume explore continuities and changes in the role of philanthropic organizations in Europe and North America in the period around the French Revolution. They aim to make connections between research on the early modern and late modern periods, and to analyze policies towards poverty in different countries within Europe and across the Atlantic. Cunningham and Innes highlight the new role for voluntary organizations emerging in the late eighteenth century and draws out the implications of this for received accounts of the development of welfare states.
Author | : Karen Sonnelitter |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1783270683 |
Relates charity movements to religious impulse, Enlightenment 'improvement' and the fears of the Protestant ruling elite that growing social problems, unless addressed, would weaken their rule.
Author | : Laurence M. Geary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Charities |
ISBN | : 9781846823503 |
This collection of essays offers new and challenging perspectives on the history of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland, shifting and extending standard analyses to include state and voluntary philanthropy, relief under the poor law, formal and informal systems of assistance on landed estates, workers' housing and public amenities, and cultural philanthropy mediated through literature, and subsidized art exhibitions for the education of the working classes. This volume in the SSNCI (Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland) series reflects recent advances in the historiography of poverty and philanthropy in its exploration of the varied nature of charitable relief in nineteenth-century Ireland. --Provided by publisher.
Author | : Maria Luddy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 1995-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521474337 |
This book examines the role of women in philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland. The author focuses initially on the impact of religion on the lives of women and argues that the development of convents in the nineteenth century inhibited the involvement of lay Catholic women in charity work. She goes on to claim that sectarianism dominated women's philanthropic activity, and also analyses the work of women in areas of moral concern, such as prostitution and prison work. The book concludes that the most progressive developments in the care of the poor were brought about by non-conformist women, and a number of women involved in reformist organisations were later to become pioneers in the cause of suffrage. This study makes an important contribution both to Irish history and to our knowledge of women's lives and experiences in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Laurence M. Geary |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population growth that continued until the arrival of potato blight in 1845 had a severe effect on the health of the country's population, and the Famine itself caused around one million deaths from starvation and disease. This was a period of great change in medical and charitable services. In the eighteenth century the sick had come to be regarded as the deserving poor, therefore having a better claim to public assistance than those whose poverty was the result of their own dissipation, idleness or vice. A network of charities evolved in Ireland to provide free medical aid to the sick poor. The first voluntary hospital in Dublin opened in 1718 and Geary traces the establishment and development of voluntary hospitals and county infirmaries throughout the country.These had a strong Anglican ethos and bias, but after Catholic emancipation in 1829 the nepotism, sectarianism and divisive politics that were rife in these organisations came under increasing scrutiny. Medical practitioners saw considerable progress in the development of a regulated profession. Geary describes developments in policy making and legislation, culminating in the 1851 Medical Charities Act, which he describes as part of a process that characterised the century and more under review in this book: the unrelenting pressure on philanthropy and private medical charity and the inexorable shift from voluntarism to an embryonic system of state medicine.
Author | : Virginia Crossman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9780716530893 |
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 | : Four Courts Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Charities |
ISBN | : 9781846829062 |
This collection of essays offers new and challenging perspectives on the history of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland, shifting and extending standard analyses to include state and voluntary philanthropy, relief under the poor law, formal and informal systems of assistance on landed estates, workers' housing and public amenities, and cultural philanthropy mediated through literature, and subsidized art exhibitions for the education of the working classes. This volume in the SSNCI (Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland) series reflects recent advances in the historiography of poverty and philanthropy in its exploration of the varied nature of charitable relief in nineteenth-century Ireland. --Provided by publisher.
Author | : Peter Singer |
Publisher | : Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0812981561 |
Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
Author | : Michael Drew |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2022-05-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1447361547 |
Michael Drew’s review of the causes and effects of food poverty in Ireland offers the first full-length study of this significant and protracted issue that has been exacerbated by COVID-19. The book brings together the complex picture emerging from interviews with users of food aid. Their pathways into and through food poverty are impacted by the policies and practices of government and employers with wide-ranging implications. The work explores the international landscape of food poverty and situates both experiences and responses in a comparative context. It considers how these results contribute to an understanding of the problem and what action should be taken.