A History of the Irish Poor Law
A History of the Irish Poor Law

Author: George Nicholls

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1584776862

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Reprint of the sole edition. Nicholls [1781-1865] was a pioneering poor-law reformer and administrator. While Great Britain's Poor Law Commissioner he drafted the Irish Poor-Law Act (1832). One of the first to assert that relief bred a culture of dependency and a resistance to work, he advocated the abolition of relief except as a last resort. Includes sections on urban poor, workhouses, housing conditions, child labor, vagabonds etc. In addition to the present study, he wrote A History of the English Poor Law (1854) and A History of the Scotch Poor Law (1856). Like his other studies, this one relates the evolution of poor laws since the medieval era to economic, social and political history. Notably sophisticated works, they were held in high regard by Sir Leslie Stephen and F.W. Maitland.

Politics, Pauperism and Power in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Politics, Pauperism and Power in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Author: Virginia Crossman

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2006-10-31

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780719073779

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This work will be essential reading for social and political historians of nineteenth-century Ireland. It is the first academic study to explore the meanings of poverty, destitution and respectability in post-famine Ireland through the institution of the poor law, and is an original in content and interpretation. Previous works have focussed either on the relief system or on political developments. This book analyses poor law administration from a social and a political perspective. There is currently renewed interest in the English poor law of 1834, on which the Irish poor law was modelled. This book will provide historians of poverty and welfare, with an important comparative dimension

Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works
Guide to the Archives of the Office of Public Works

Author: Rena Lohan

Publisher:

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9780707603797

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Records of the Office of Public Works more than 30 years old have been transferred to the National Archives, Dublin. The types of public works records are described, then listed with call numbers.