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Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland
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Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland

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1. Self help and mutual aid
Philanthropy and poor relief before the poor law, 1801{u2013}30 / Mel Cousins
'The best relief the poor can receive is from themselves' : the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor / Laurence M. Geary
Charitable loan fund societies in Ireland, c.1820{u2013}1914 / Eoin McLaughlin
2. Land and Guinness
'The monster misery of Ireland' : landlord paternalism and the 1822 famine in the West / Conor McNamara
Charity, paternalism and power on the Clonbrock Estates, County Galway, 1834{u2013}44 / Kevin Mc Kenna
Pecuniary assistance for poverty and emigration : the politics of landed estate management and philanthropy in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland / Joanne McEntee
'Guinness is good for you' : experiments in workers' housing and public amenities by the Guinness Brewery and Guinness/Iveagh Trust, 1872{u2013}1915 / Linda King
3. Women and children
'A person of the second order' : the plight of the intellectually disabled in nineteenth-century Ireland / Oonagh Walsh
'Saver of the children' : the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Ireland, 1889{u2013}1921 / Sarah-Anne Buckley
From lace making to social activism : the resourcefulness of campaigning women philanthropists / Mary Pierse
4. Cultural philanthropy : art and literature Cultural philanthropy in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland / Philip McEvansoneya
Doing good and being bad in Victorian Ireland : some literary and evolutionary perspectives / John Wilson Foster.

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