The end of the Irish Poor Law?

The end of the Irish Poor Law?
Title The end of the Irish Poor Law? PDF eBook
Author Donnacha Sean Lucey
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 263
Release 2016-03-02
Genre History
ISBN 1784996114

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Analyses the attempted reform of the Poor Law system in Ireland between 1910 and 1932. This period represented one of the most formative and crucial eras in Irish politics and society with the ideas of culture, nation, state and identity widely contested.

A History of the Scotch Poor Law

A History of the Scotch Poor Law
Title A History of the Scotch Poor Law PDF eBook
Author Sir George Nicholls
Publisher
Pages 310
Release 1856
Genre Poor laws
ISBN

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Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works

Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works
Title Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works PDF eBook
Author Rena Lohan
Publisher
Pages 307
Release 1994-01-01
Genre Archives
ISBN 9780707603797

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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.

A History of the Irish Poor Law

A History of the Irish Poor Law
Title A History of the Irish Poor Law PDF eBook
Author Sir George Nicholls
Publisher
Pages 476
Release 1856
Genre Poor laws
ISBN

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A History of the Irish Poor Law

A History of the Irish Poor Law
Title A History of the Irish Poor Law PDF eBook
Author George Nicholls
Publisher The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Pages 436
Release 2006
Genre Poor laws
ISBN 1584776862

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Reprint of the sole edition. Nicholls [1781-1865] was a pioneering poor-law reformer and administrator. While Great Britain's Poor Law Commissioner he drafted the Irish Poor-Law Act (1832). One of the first to assert that relief bred a culture of dependency and a resistance to work, he advocated the abolition of relief except as a last resort. Includes sections on urban poor, workhouses, housing conditions, child labor, vagabonds etc. In addition to the present study, he wrote A History of the English Poor Law (1854) and A History of the Scotch Poor Law (1856). Like his other studies, this one relates the evolution of poor laws since the medieval era to economic, social and political history. Notably sophisticated works, they were held in high regard by Sir Leslie Stephen and F.W. Maitland.

Compendium of the Irish Poor Law

Compendium of the Irish Poor Law
Title Compendium of the Irish Poor Law PDF eBook
Author Ireland
Publisher
Pages 526
Release 1898
Genre Poor laws
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The Great Famine

The Great Famine
Title The Great Famine PDF eBook
Author Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 138
Release 2011-06-02
Genre History
ISBN 144113977X

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Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades.