Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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
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