Pre-famine Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pre-famine Ireland write by Thomas Walter Freeman. This book was released on 1957. Pre-famine Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland
Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland write by Ciarán McCabe. This book was released on 2018-10-29. Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 first time the complex cultures of mendicancy, as well as how wider societal perceptions of and responses to begging were framed by social class, gender and religion. The study breaks new ground in exploring the challenges inherent in defining and measuring begging and alms-giving in pre-Famine Ireland, as well as the disparate ways in which mendicants were perceived by contemporaries. A discussion of the evolving role of parish vestries in the life of pre-Famine communities facilitates an examination of corporate responses to beggary, while a comprehensive analysis of the mendicity society movement, which flourished throughout Ireland in the three decades following 1815, highlights the significance of charitable societies and associational culture in responding to the perceived threat of mendicancy. The instance of the mendicity societies illustrates the extent to which Irish commentators and social reformers were influenced by prevailing theories and practices in the transatlantic world regarding the management of the poor and deviant. Drawing on a wide range of sources previously unused for the study of poverty and welfare, this book makes an important contribution to modern Irish social and ecclesiastical history. An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.
The Great Irish Famine
The Great Irish Famine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Irish Famine write by Cormac Ó'Gráda. This book was released on 1995-09-28. The Great Irish Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain.
Ireland Before and After the Famine
Ireland Before and After the Famine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland Before and After the Famine write by Cormac Ó Gráda. This book was released on 1993. Ireland Before and After the Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.
Pre-Famine Ireland: Social Structure
Pre-Famine Ireland: Social Structure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pre-Famine Ireland: Social Structure write by Desmond Keenan. This book was released on 2018-12-20. Pre-Famine Ireland: Social Structure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book describes the social and economic conditions in Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century—that is up to and including the Great Famine. It is concerned about particular issues like the Catholic emancipation or the famine but looks at Irish society as a whole. Central and local government are described: the economy (agricultural and industrial), the churches, the educational system, the medicine, the arts, the music, and the sports. It aims at presenting, as complete a picture as possible, Ireland at the time.
