This book will provide a ground-breaking introduction to the history of poverty and welfare in modern Ireland in the era of the Irish poor law. As the first stu

The book provides the first detailed, comprehensive assessment of the ideological basis and practical operation of the poor law system in the post-Famine period

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 Iri

This edited collection is the first to address the topic of adolescence in Irish history. It brings together established and emerging scholars to examine the ex

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces