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- Title
‘One Huge Abuse’: The Cork Board of Guardians and the Expansion of Outdoor Relief in Post-Famine Ireland*.
- Authors
Crossman, Virginia; Lucey, Donnacha Seán
- Abstract
The article discusses the Cork Board of Guardians in Cork, Ireland established by the 1847 British Parliamentary Irish Poor Relief Extension Act for outdoor relief in years following the 1846 and 1847 Irish famine. It considers contemporary opinions and criticisms regarding outdoor relief presented by officials responsible for overseeing the implementation of the poor laws, Catholic Church clergy, social reformers, and Irish nationalists. It considers the impact of outdoor relief compared to the previous requirements for institutionalization of poor people on Irish society. Other topics include home rule, agrarianism, and competing late nineteenth-century nationalist and unionist political doctrines.
- Subjects
CORK (Ireland); IRELAND; POOR laws; SERVICES for the poor; IRISH question; PUBLIC welfare; CATHOLIC clergy; IRISH home rule movement, 1870-1916; NATIONALISM; GREAT Famine, Ireland, 1845-1852; IRISH history -- 1837-1901; HISTORY of nationalism
- Publication
English Historical Review, 2011, Vol 126, Issue 523, p1408
- ISSN
0013-8266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ehr/cer327