Book of Donmon Teith

This is a study of the nature and operation of the Irish poor law system in the post-famine period. It traces the expansion of the system to encompass a wide ra

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

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces