1. Introduction: poverty and welfare in Ireland, 1838-1948 / Virginia Crossman and Peter Gray
Part 1. Regional dimensions of the Irish poor law. 2. Poor relief in the north of Ireland, 1850-1921 / Olwen Purdue
3. Poor relief in the west of Ireland, 1861-1911 / Donnacha Seán Lucey
4. Poor relief in the south of Ireland, 1850-1921 / Georgina Laragy
Part 2. New perspectives on the Irish poor law. 5. Yardsticks for Irish workhouses during the great famine / Cormac Ó Gráda
6. Orphans and the Poor Law: rage against the machine / Anna Clark
7. The origins of child welfare under the poor law and the emergence of the institutional versus family care debate / Caroline Skehill
Part 3. Landlords, philanthropists and the relief of poverty. 8. William Smith O'Brien, poor laws and convicts / Richard P. Davis
9. Clearing the estates to fill the workhouse: King's county land agents and the Irish Poor Law Act, 1838 / Ciarán J. Reilly
Part 4. Medicine and public health. 11. Medical victories: the Dublin Medical Press and the Medical Charities Debate, 1838-51 / Ann Daly
12. The medical profession, health care and the Poor Law in nineteenth-century Ireland / Laurence M. Geary
13. An enormous amount of distress amound the poor - aid for the poor in Ulster during the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 / Patricia Marsh
14. Ending the pauper taint: medical benefit and welfare reform in Northern Ireland, 1921-39 / Peter Martin.
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Poverty and welfare in Ireland 1838-1948. ISBN 9780716530909. Published by Irish Academic Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
