Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2015)
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Self help and mutual aid -- Philanthropy and poor relief before the poor law, 1801-30 / 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.1820-1914 / 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, 1834-44 / 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, 1872-1915 / 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, 1889-1921 / 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