Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century Ireland - Philanthropy and Improvement

Relates charity movements to religious impulse, Enlightenment 'improvement' and the fears of the Protestant ruling elite that growing social problems, unless addressed, would weaken their rule.

List of contents

Introduction: Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: The Case for Improvement
'The Worst in Christendom': The Church of Ireland and Improvement
Education and Charity: The Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland
To Cure and Relieve: Voluntary Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
Improvement as Philanthropy: The Dublin Society
'The Benevolent Sympathies of the Female Heart': Women, Improvement, and the Work of the Lady Arbella Denny
National and Local Government and Improvement
Conclusion: Philanthropy and Improvement in the Eighteenth-Century and Beyond

About the author

Karen Sonnelitter

Product details

• Authors: Karen Sonnelitter
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2016
• EAN: 9781783270682
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-068-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Irish Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Irland, Europäische Geschichte, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Philanthropy & Charity, History - General History, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland