Absence Of Poor Law Relief In Ireland
Categories: Ireland
Above : Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister At The Time
While in England a form of Poor Law had existed since shortly after the Reformation, there was, properly speaking, none in Ireland up to the fourth decade of the nineteenth century. The Houses of Industry, which had been built in a few places, were intended [...]
Above : Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister At The Time While in England a form of Poor Law had existed since shortly after the Reformation, there was, properly speaking, none in Ireland up to the fourth decade of the nineteenth century. The Houses of Industry, which had been built in a few places, were intended partially as a kind of adult reformatories for idle vicious persons of both sexes, and partially as shelters for the old and infirm. There were also, in ... Read More