Letters of the Catholic Poor - Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A pioneering new 'history from below' of Irish poverty told through the letters of the Catholic poor in Independent Ireland. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Lindsey (University College Dublin) Earner-Byrne, Earner-Byrne Lindsey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781316631805
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63180-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, Poverty & unemployment, Ireland, Social and cultural history, Diaries, letters and journals, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Poverty and precarity