Politics, pauperism and power in late nineteenth-century Ireland
ISBN: 9781526129611
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Manchester University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Poor; Poverty; Poor laws; Poor laws; Poor laws;

This is a study of the nature and operation of the poor law system in post-Famine ireland. Topics covered include the politicisation of the welfare system, the relief of distress, the provision of labourers' cottages and the role of women.

Virginia Crossman is Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University

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