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‘Growing Up Poor’: child welfare, motherhood and the State during the First World War
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-11-23)
In the history of child welfare in Ireland and other western countries, the period during the First World War coincided with a time of international attention on poor and working-class families and children. As this occurred ...
‘Found in a “dying” condition’: nurse-children in Ireland, 1872–1952
(Institute of Historical Research, 2012-09)
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Family and power: Incest and Ireland, 1880-1950
(Irish Academic Press, 2011-06-17)
[No abstract available]
Guest Editors’ Introduction
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)
[No abstract available]
Childhood since 1740
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-04)
[No abstract available]
Institutionalised for poverty: women's rights and child welfare in the Ireland, 1922-1996
(Jacobin, 2016-05-27)
While referring to all citizens of the Republic, the oft-cited reference to the 1916 Proclamation and cherishing all the children of the nation equally holds much relevance when discussing the institutionalisation of ...
Parenting, poverty and the NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
This chapter addresses a number of key questions surrounding parenting, poverty and the state in Ireland from 1889 to 1939.1 Concentrating on the period from the opening of the first Irish branch of the National Society ...
Interrogating institutionalisation and child welfare: the Irish case, 1939–1991*
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-20)
The topic of institutionalisation and child welfare in Ireland has garnered increasing national and international public and scholarly attention over the past twenty years. This is not an Irish phenomenon. Governments ...