Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Laurence M. Geary, Oonagh Walsh

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829062
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: History

This current volume in the SSNCI series examines a range of charitable endeavors in Ireland, and it examines these initiatives in the context of changing social and political expectations. Contents include: doing good and being bad in Victorian Ireland * philanthropy and the care of children in Ireland, 1850-1922 * the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor, 1799-1809 * the uses of philanthropy in 19th-century Ireland * cultural philanthropy in the mid-19th century * industry, philanthropy, and architectural innovation * philanthropic women migrants to Australia * campaigning women philanthropists * landlordism and philanthropy in 19th-century Ireland * charitable loan fund societies in Ireland, c.1820-1914 * the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Ireland, 1889-1900. (Series: Nineteenth-Century Ireland) [Subject: History, Irish Studies]

Table of contents

• 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