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

The history of emotions has become a central preoccupation across the humanities and this volume considers the rich possibility of writing a history of happines

With its focus on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and later nineteenth centuries, this book addresses a range of questions that are often

Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book explores at length for the f