Lindsey Earner-Byrne

Letters of the Catholic Poor

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative history of poverty in Independent Ireland, essential to those interested in Irish social history. By examining a rich cache of letters written to the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, this book explores the role of individual agency, gender, religion and priests in Roman Catholic charity in Ireland between 1920 and 1940.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9781107179912
• ISBN-10: 1107179912
• Artikelnr.: 45155548

Autorenporträt

Lindsey Earner-Byrne is a lecturer in modern Irish history in the School of History at University College Dublin and a member of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. She has researched and published on gender, health and welfare in modern Ireland with a focus on mothers, widows and children.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The social setting: 'is this a civilized country?'
2. Artefacts of poverty: 'I crave your holy pardon for writing'
3. The 'poor' make their case: 'surely they are worth helping'
4. Hidden poverty: 'I bear my poverty in silence'
5. The cost of poverty: 'to live or rather exist'
6. Vetting and vouching: 'it would be a charity to help him'
Conclusion: 'peopling the past'
Bibliography
Index.