Books, Chapters and Articles
Abel, E. K., ‘Valuing care: turn-of-the-century conflicts between charity workers and women clients’, Journal of Women’s History, 10 (1998), 32–52.
Abrams, L., Oral History Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 2010).
Adams, T. M., ‘The mixed economy of welfare European perspectives’ in Harris, B. and Bridgen, P. (eds.), Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America Since 1800 (New York and London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 43–66.
Akenson, H. D., ‘Keeping separate: boundary maintenance systems’ in Harman Akenson, D. (ed.), Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815–1922 (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University, 1988), pp. 108–126.
Andrews, C. S., Man of No Property: An Autobiography (Dublin: Mercier, 1982).
Bailey, J., ‘“Think wot a mother must feel”: parenting in English pauper letters’, Family & Community History, 13 (2010), 5–19.
Bhattacharya, S., ‘History from below’, Social Scientist, 11 (April 1983), 3–20.
Bielenberg, A., Ireland and the Industrial Revolution: The Impact of the Industrial Revolution on Irish Industry, 1801–1922 (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).
Birdwell-Pheasant, D., ‘The early twentieth-century Irish stem family: a case study from Co. Kerry’ in Silverman, M. and Gulliver, P. H. (eds.), Approaching the Past: Historical Anthropology through Irish Case Studies, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992), pp. 205–235.
Bland, C. and Cros, M. (eds.), Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter Writing, 1750–2000, (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).
Bock, G. and Thane, P. (eds.), Maternity and Gender Policies: Women and the Rise of the European Welfare State, 1880s–1950s (London: Routledge, 1990).
Boulton, J., ‘“It is extreme necessity that makes me do this”: some “survival strategies” of pauper households in London’s West End during the early eighteenth century’, International Review of Social History, 45 (2000), 47–69.
Bourdieu, P., In Other Words: Essays towards a Reflexive Sociology (Oxford: Polity, 1990).
Bourke, J., Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present (London: Virago, 2007).
Boydell, B., ‘Impressions of Dublin – 1934’, Dublin Historical Record, 37 (1984), 88–103.
Bracken, P., Light of Other Days (Cork: The Mercier Press, 1992).
Brady, J., Dublin, 1930–1950: The Emergence of the Modern City (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014).
Brandes, I., ‘“Odious, degrading and foreign” institutions? Analysing Irish workhouses in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ in Gestrich, A., King, S. and Raphael, L. (eds.), Being Poor in Modern Europe: Historical Perspectives 1800–1940 (Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 199–227.
Breathnach, C., ‘Lady Dudley’s district nursing scheme and the congested districts board, 1903–1923’ in Preston, M. H. and Ó hÓgartaigh, M. (eds.), Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700–1950 (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012), pp. 138–153.
Breathnach, C., ‘Medicalizing the female reproductive cycle in rural Ireland, 1926–56’, Historical Research, 85 (2012), 674–690.
Breathnach, C. (ed.), Framing the West: Images of Rural Ireland, 1891–1920 (Dublin, 2007).
Breathnach, C., ‘Smallholder housing and people’s health, 1890–1915’ in Breathnach, (ed.), Framing the West, pp. 175–192.
Breathnach, C., The Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891–1923 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005).
Breathnach, C., ‘The role of women in the economy of the West of Ireland, 1891–1923’ New Hibernia Review, 1 (2004), 80–92.
Bhreathnach, E., MacMahon, J. and McCafferty, J. (eds.), The Irish Franciscans 1534–1990 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009).
Breen, R. and Williams, C. (eds.), Understanding Contemporary Ireland: State, Class and Development in the Republic of Ireland (London: The Macmillan Press, 1990).
Brophy, C. S. and Delay, C. (eds.), Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850–1950 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
Brown, A. (ed.), Masters, Midwives and Ladies-in-waiting, the Rotunda Hospital 1745–1995 (Dublin: Farmar & Farmar, 1995).
Brown, S. J. and Miller, D. W. (eds.), Piety and Power in Ireland, 1760–1960 (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 2000).
Buckley, S., ‘Found in a “dying” condition’: nurse-children in Ireland, 1872–1952’ in Farrell, E. (ed.), ‘She Said She was in the Family Way’: Pregnancy and Infancy in Modern Ireland (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2012), pp. 145–152.
Buckley, S., The Cruelty Man: Child Welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland, 1889–1956 (Manchester University Press, 2013).
Buckley, S., ‘The NSPCC in Ireland, 1889–1939 – a case study’, Saothar, 33 (2008), 59–70.
Burke, H., The People and the Poor Law in Nineteenth Century Ireland (West Sussex: Argus Press, 1987).
Burke, P. and Porter, R. (eds.), The Social History of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
Carey, S., Social Security in Ireland, 1939–1952: The Limits of Solidarity (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007).
Clarkson, L., ‘The modernization of the Irish diet, 1740–1920’ in Davis, J. (ed.), Rural Change in Ireland (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, 1999), pp. 32–45.
Clear, C., Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850–1922 (Manchester University Press, 2007).
Clear, C., ‘Women in de Valera’s Ireland, 1932–48: a reappraisal’ in Doherty, G. and Keogh, D. (eds.), De Valera’s Irelands (Cork: Mercier Press, 2003), pp. 104–114.
Clear, C., ‘“A living saint if ever there was one”: work, austerity and authority in the lives of Irish women of the house, 1921–1961’ in Hill, J. and Lennon, C. (eds.), Luxury and Austerity (University College Dublin Press, 1999), pp. 212–229.
Coakley, A., ‘Mothers and poverty’ in Kennedy, P. (ed.), Motherhood in Ireland: Creation and Context (Cork: Mercier Press, 2003), pp. 207–217.
Cohen, M. R., The Voice of the Poor in the Middle Ages: An Anthology of Documents from the Cairo Geniza (Jews, Christian, and Muslim from the Ancient to the Modern World) (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005).
Cohen, M. and Curtain, N. (eds.), Reclaiming Gender: Transgressing Identities in Modern Ireland (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999).
Coleman, M., The Irish Sweep: A History of the Irish Hospital Sweepstake, 1930–1987 (University College Dublin Press, 2009).
Colley, L., Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600–1850 (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002).
Conlan, P., ‘The secular Franciscans’ in Bhreathnach, MacMahon and McCafferty (eds.), The Irish Franciscans 1534–1990, pp. 260–70.
Connolly, S., ‘“The moving statute and the turtle dove”: Approaches to the history of Irish religion’, Irish Economic and Social History, 51 (2004), 1–22.
Conroy, P., ‘Motherhood interrupted: Adoption in Ireland’ in Kennedy, P. (ed.), Motherhood in Ireland: Creation and Context (Cork: Mercier Press, 2003), pp. 181–93.
Coogan, O., Politics and War in Meath 1913–1923 (Dublin: Folens, 1983).
Cosgrove, A. (ed.), Marriage in Ireland (Dublin: College Press, 1985).
Cousins, M., ‘“Sickness”, gender, and National Health Insurance in Ireland, 1920s–1940s’ in Preston, M. H. and Ó hÓgartaigh, M. (eds.), Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700–1950 (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012), pp. 169–188.
Cousins, M., Poor Relief in Ireland 1851–1914 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2011).
Cousins, M., The Birth of Social Welfare in Ireland, 1922–1952 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003).
Cox, C., Negotiating Insanity in Southeast Ireland 1830–1900 (Manchester University Press, 2013).
Cox, C. and Luddy, M. (ed.), Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, 1750–1970 (Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Crane, S. A., ‘Writing the individual back into collective memory’, American Historical Review, 102 (1997), 1372–1385.
Crawford, M., ‘Dearth, diet and disease in Ireland, 1850: a case study of nutritional deficiency’, Medical History, 28 (1984), 151–161.
Crew, D., ‘The ambiguities of modernity: welfare and the German State from Wilhelm to Hitler’ in Eley, J. (ed.), Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870–1930 (Michigan, 1996), pp. 319–344.
Cronin, M., Country, Class, or Craft?: The Politicisation of Nineteenth Century Cork (Cork: Cork University Press, 1994).
Crossman, V., Poverty and the Poor Law in Ireland, 1850–1914 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013).
Crossman, V., ‘“Attending to the wants of poverty”: Paul Cullen, the relief of poverty and the development of social welfare in Ireland’ in Keogh, D. and McDonnell, A. (eds.), Cardinal Paul Cullen and his World (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012), pp. 146–165.
Crossman, V. and Gray, P. (eds.), Poverty and Welfare in Ireland 1838–1948 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2011).
Crossman, V. and Gray, P., ‘Middle-class attitudes to poverty and welfare in post-famine Ireland’ in Lane, F. (ed.), Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), pp. 130–147.
Crossman, V. and Gray, P., ‘“Facts notorious to the whole country”: The political battle over Irish Poor Law reform in the 1860s’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 20 (December 2010), 157–169.
Crossman, V. and Gray, P., Politics, Pauperism and Power in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2006).
Crossman, V. and Gray, P., The Poor Law in Ireland, 1838–1948 (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 2006).
Crowley, E., Cowslips and Chainies: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1930s (Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 1996).
Cullen, L., The Emergence of Modern Ireland, 1600–1900 (London: Batsford, 1981).
Cullen, M. (ed.), Girls Don’t Do Honours: Irish Women in Education in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Women’s Education Bureau, 1987).
Cumbler, J. T., ‘The politics of charity: gender and class in late 19th Century charity policy’, Journal of Social History, 14 (1980), 99–111.
Curthoys, A. and McGrath, A. (eds.), Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration (Melbourne: Monash Publications in History, 2000).
Curtis, B., ‘Magdalen asylums and moral regulation in Ireland’ in Potts, A. and O’Donoghue, T. A., (eds.), Schools as Dangerous Places: A Historical Perspective (New York: Cambria Press, 2007), pp. 119–43.
Curtis, M., A Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern Ireland (Dublin: The History Press Ireland, 2010).
Daly, M. E., ‘Death and disease in independent Ireland, c. 1920–1970: A research agenda’ in Cox, and Luddy, (ed.), Cultures of Care in Irish Medical History, pp. 229–250.
Daly, M. E., ‘“The primary and natural educator?”: The role of parents in the education of their children in independent Ireland’, Eire-Ireland, 44 (Spring/Summer, 2009), 194–217.
Daly, M. E., Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland (Wisconsin University Press, 2006).
Daly, M. E., ‘Marriage, fertility and women’s lives in the twentieth-century Ireland’, Women’s History Review, 15 (2006), 571–585.
Daly, M. E.,‘The Irish family since the Famine: continuity and change’, The Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, 3 (1999), 1–21.
Daly, M. E., The Buffer State: The Historical Roots of the Department of the Environment (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1997).
Daly, M. E., Women and Work in Ireland (Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, 1997).
Daly, M. E., ‘Women in the Irish Free State, 1922–39: The interaction between economics and history,’ Journal of Women’s History (Winter/Spring, 1995), 89–116.
Daly, M. E., ‘Working-class housing in Scottish and Irish cities on the eve of World War I’ in Connelly, S. F., Houston, R. A. and Morris, R. F. (eds.), Conflict, Identity and Economic Development, Ireland and Scotland, 1600–1939 (Preston: John Donald, 1995), pp. 217–27.
Daly, M. E., ‘Housing conditions and the genesis of housing reform in Dublin 1880–1920’ in Bannon, M. J. (ed.), The Emergence of Irish Planning 1880–1920 (Dublin: Turoe Press, 1985), pp. 77–130.
Daly, M. E., Dublin – The Deposed Capital, 1860–1914 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1984).
Daybell, J., ‘Scripting a female voice: women’s epistolary rhetoric in sixteenth-century letters of petition’, Women’s Writing, 13 (2006), 3–22.
Delay, C., ‘Confidantes or competitors? women, priests, and conflict in post-famine Ireland’, Éire-Ireland, 40 (Spring/Summer 2005), 107–125.
Dening, G., ‘Performing on the Beaches of the mind: an essay’, History and Theory, 41 (February 2002), 1–24.
Dening, G., ‘Writing: praxis and performance’ in Curthoys, and McGrath, (eds.), Writing Histories, pp. 45–53.
Deutsch, S., Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870–1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Dickson, D., Dublin: The Making of a Capital City (London: Profile Books, 2014).
Digby, A. and Stewart, J., (eds.), Gender, Health and Welfare (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).
Digby, A. and Stewart, J., ‘Poverty, health, and the politics of gender in Britain, 1870–1948’ in Digby, and Stewart, , (eds.), Gender, Health and Welfare, pp. 67–90.
Ditz, T., ‘Formative ventures: eighteenth-century commercial letters and the articulation of experience’ in Earle, R. (ed.), Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-writers, 1600–1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), pp. 59–78.
Dunphy, R., The Making of Fianna Fáil: Power in Ireland, 1923–1948 (Oxford University Press, 1995).
Dyson, R., ‘Who were the poor of Oxford of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?’ in Gestrich, , King, and Raphael, (eds.), Being Poor in Modern Europe, pp. 43–68.
Earle, R. (ed.), Epistolary Selves: Letters and Letter-Writers, 1600–1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999).
Earle, R., ‘Introduction: letters, writers and the historian’, in Earle, (ed.), Epistolary Selves, pp. 1–12.
Earner-Byrne, L., ‘The rape of Miss Mary M.: A mircrohistory of sexual violence and moral redemption in 1920s Ireland’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 24 (January, 2015), 75–98.
Earner-Byrne, L., ‘“Dear Father my health is broken down”: Writing health in Irish charity letters, 1922–1940’, Journal of the Social History of Medicine, 28 (2015), 894–868.
Earner-Byrne, L., ‘“Should I Take Myself and Family to Another Religion [?]”: Irish Catholic women, protest, and conformity, 1920–1940’ in Brophy, and Delay, (eds.), Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850–1950.
Earner-Byrne, L., ‘Reinforcing the family: The role of gender, morality and sexuality in Irish welfare policy, 1922–1944,’ The History of the Family, 13 (2008), 360–369.
Earner-Byrne, L., ‘“Parading their poverty”: ‘Widows in twentieth-century Ireland’ in Faragó, B. and Sullivan, M. (eds.), Facing the Other: Interdisciplinary Studies on Race, Gender and Social Justice in Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), pp. 32–46.
Earner-Byrne, L., Mother and Child: Maternity and Child Welfare in Dublin, 1922–60 (Manchester University Press, 2007, 2013).
Earner-Byrne, L., ‘Moral repatriation’: The response to Irish unmarried mothers in Britain, 1920s–1960s’ in Duffy, P. (ed.), To and from Ireland: Planned Migration Schemes c. 1600–2000 (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2004), pp. 155–174.
Fahey, T., ‘State, family and compulsory schooling in Ireland’, Economic and Social Review, 23 (July 1992), 375–78.
Fahy, B., Freedom of Angels: Surviving Goldenbridge Orphanage (Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1999).
Farmar, T., Privileged Lives: A Social History of Middle-Class Ireland, 1882–1989 (Dublin: A. & A. Farmar, 2010).
Farrell, E., ‘A Most Diabolical Deed’: Infanticide and Irish Society, 1850–1900 (Manchester University Press, 2013).
Farrell, E. (ed.), ‘She Said She was in the Family Way’: Pregnancy and Infancy in Modern Ireland (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2012).
Farry, M., The Aftermath of Revolution: Sligo 1921–23 (University College Dublin Press, 2000).
Ferriter, D., ‘The stupid propaganda of the calamity mongers’?: The middle class and Irish politics, 1945–97’ in Lane, F. (ed.), Politics, Society and the Middle Class in Modern Ireland (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 271–287.
Ferriter, D., Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (London: Profile Books, 2009).
Ferriter, D., The Transformation of Ireland 1900–2000 (London: Profile Books, 2004).
Ferriter, D., A Nation of Extremes: The Pioneers in Twentieth Century Ireland (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1999).
Findlater, A., Findlaters –The Story of a Dublin Merchant Family 1774–2001 (Dublin: A & A Farmar, 2000).
Fissell, M. E., Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Fissell, M. E., Patients, Power, and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Fitzpatrick, D. (ed.), Terror in Ireland, 1916–1923 (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2012).
Fitzpatrick, D., Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia (New York: Cornell University Press, 1994).
Fitzpatrick, D., ‘Marriage in post-famine Ireland’ in Cosgrove, A. (ed.), Marriage in Ireland (Dublin: College Press, 1985), pp. 116–131.
Fitzpatrick, D., ‘Class, family and rural unrest in nineteenth century Ireland’, Irish Studies, 2 (1982), 37–75.
Flynn, M., Nothing to Say: A Novel (Dublin: Ward River Press, 1983).
Fontaine, L. and Schlumbohm, J., ‘Household strategies for survival: an introduction’, International Review of Social History, 45 (2000), 1–17.
French, B., ‘Gendered speech and engendering citizenship in the Irish Free State: ordinary women and County Clare District Courts, 1932–34’ in Brophy, and Delay, (eds.), Women, Reform, and Resistance in Ireland, 1850–1950, pp. 139–162.
Fulbrook, M. and Rublack, U., ‘In relation: The “social self” and ego-documents’, German History, 28 (2010), 263–272.
Galvin, P., Song for a Poor Boy: A Cork Childhood (Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1990).
Garraty, J., Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy (New York: Harper & Row, 1978).
Garvin, T., Preventing the Future: Why was Ireland so Poor for so Long? (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2004).
Gaughan, A. J., The Archbishops, Bishops and Priests who served in the Archdiocese of Dublin between 1900–2011, (Dublin: Kingdom Books, 2012).
Gazeley, I., Poverty in Britain, 1900–1965 (Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Geertz, C., The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (London: Fontana Press, [1973], 1993).
Gerber, D., ‘The immigrant letter between positivism and populism: American historians’ uses of personal correspondence’ in Earle, (ed.), Epistolary Selves, pp. 37–55.
Gestrich, A., ‘Solidarity and care: a research area of the GHIL’, Bulletin: German Historical Institute London, 35 (November 2013), 4–11.
Gestrich, A. and King, S., ‘Pauper letters and petitions for poor relief in Germany and Great Britain, 1770–1914’, Bulletin: German Historical Institute London, 35 (November 2013), 2–25.
Gestrich, A., Hurren, E. and King, S. (eds.), Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe: Narratives of the Sick Poor, 1780–1938 (London: Continuum, 2012).
Gestrich, A., Hurren, and King, , ‘Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780–1938: Sources, methods and experiences’ in Gestrich, , Hurren, and King, (eds.), Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe, pp. 1–33.
Gestrich, A., King, and Raphael, (eds.), Being Poor in Modern Europe.
Gialanella, V. M. (ed.), Gender and Power in Irish History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2009).
Ginzberg, L. D., Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993).
Gordon, L., Hero of their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence (London: Virago, 1989).
Gray, P., ‘Irish social thought and the relief of poverty, 1847–1880’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 20 (2010), 141–156.
Gregory, B. S., ‘Is small beautiful? Microhistory and the history of everyday life’, History and Theory, 38 (February 1999), 100–110.
Guinnane, T. W., The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850–1914 (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997).
Guinnane, T. W., ‘The Poor Law and the pension in Ireland’, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 24 (1993), 271–291.
Halttunen, K., Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830–1870 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982).
Hämmerle, C., ‘Requests, complaints, demands. Preliminary thoughts on the petitioning letters of lower-class Austrian women, 1865–1918’ in Bland, and Cros, (eds.), Gender and Politics in the Age of Letter Writing, pp. 115–134.
Hansen, W., ‘Grief, sickness and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth-century Copenhagen’ in Gestrich, , Hurren, and King, (eds.), Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe, pp. 35–50.
Harman, A. D., ‘Keeping separate: boundary maintenance systems’ in Harman Akenson, D., Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815–1922 (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University, 1988), pp. 108–126.
Harman, D. H., Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815–1922 (Montreal: McGill Queen’s University, 1988).
Harris, B. and Briden, P., ‘Introduction: The “mixed economy of welfare” and the historiography of welfare provision’ in Harris, and Bridgen, (eds.), Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America, pp. 1–18.
Harris, R., ‘Negotiating patriarchy: Irish women and the landlord’ in Cohen, and Curtain, (eds.), Reclaiming Gender, pp. 207–226.
Hartigan, M., ‘The religious life of the Catholic laity in Dublin, 1920–1940’ in Kelly, J. and Keogh, D. (eds.), History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin (Dublin: Four Courts, 2000), pp. 331–48.
Harte, L., (ed.), Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society (Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Haughton, J. P., ‘The social geography of Dublin,’ Geographical Review, 39 (1949), 257–77.
Heinisch, D., ‘Petitions of the Council of the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main’, Bulletin: German Historical Institute London, 35 (November 2013), 26–42.
Hendrick, H., Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Himmerlfarb, G., Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1991).
Hitchcock, T., King, P. and Sharpe, P. (eds.), Chronicling Poverty: The Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640–1840 (Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan, 1997).
Hitchcock, T., ‘A new history from below’, History Workshop Journal, 57 (2004), 294–298.
Hollen Lees, L., The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People 1700–1948 (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Holmes, K., Between the Leaves: Stories of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens (Crawley: The University of Western Australia, 2011).
Holohan, C., ‘Conceptualising and responding to poverty in the Republic of Ireland in the 1960s: a case study of Dublin, Social History, 41 (January 2016), 34–53.
Horne, J., (ed.), Our War: Ireland and the Great War (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2009).
Houston, R. A., Peasant Petitions: Social Relations & Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850 (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).
Hudson, G. L., ‘Arguing Disability: Ex-servicemen’s own stories in early modern England, 1590–1790’ in Bivins, R. and Pickstone, J. V. (eds.), Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 105–117.
Hudson, K., Pawnbroking: An Aspect of British Social History (London: The Bodley Head Press, 1982).
Hufton, O., The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University Press, 1974).
Hug, C., The Politics of Sexual Morality in Ireland (London: Macmillan Press, 1999).
Hurren, E., ‘The business of anatomy and being poor: Why have we failed to learn the medical and poverty lessons of the past?’ in Gestrich, , King, and Raphael, (eds.), Being Poor in Modern Europe, pp. 135–155.
Johnston, M., Around the Banks of Pimlico (Dublin: Attic Press, 1986).
Jones, G., ‘Women and Tuberculosis in Ireland’ in Preston, M. H. and Ó hÓgartaigh, M. (eds.), Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700–1950 (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012), pp. 33–48.
Jones, G., ‘Captain of all These Men of Death’: The History of Tuberculosis in Nineteenth- and Twentieth Century Ireland (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001).
Jones, P., ‘“I cannot keep my place without being deascent”: Pauper letters, parish clothing and pragmatism in the South of England, 1750–1830’, Rural History, 20 (2009), 31–49.
Jordan, T. E., ‘The quality of life in Victorian Ireland, 1831–1901’, New Hibernia Review, 4 (2000), 103–121.
Kahl, S., ‘The religious roots of modern poverty policy: Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed Protestant traditions compared’, European Journal of Sociology, 46 (2005), 91–126.
Kanya-Forstner, M., ‘Defining womanhood: Irish women and the Catholic Church in Victorian Liverpool’, Immigrants & Minorities, 18 (1999), 178–184.
Katz, M. B., ‘The history of an impudent poor woman in New York city from 1918 to 1923’ in Mandler, P. (ed.), The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), pp. 227–246.
Kearns Blain, A., Stealing Sunlight (Dublin: A & A Farmar Publishers, 2000).
Kearns, K., Dublin’s Lost Heroines: Mammies and Grannies in a Vanished City (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2004).
Kearns, K., Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1994).
Kelly, A., ‘Catholic Action and the development of the Irish welfare state in the 1930s and 1940s’, Archivium Hibernicum, 53 (1999), 107–17.
Kelly, and Keogh, (eds.), History of the Catholic Diocese of Dublin.
Kelly, L., ‘Rickets and Irish children: Dr Ella Webb and the early work of the Children’s Sunshine Home, 1925–1946’ in MacLellan, A. and Mauger, A. (eds.), Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland, 1750–1950 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press: 2013), pp. 141–158.
Kelly, S., ‘And so to bed’: Bone and joint tuberculosis in children in Ireland, 1920–1950’ in MacLellan, and Mauger, (eds.), Growing Pains: Childhood Illness in Ireland, 1750–1950, pp. 175–194.
Kenneally, C., Maura’s Boy: A Cork Childhood (Cork: Mercier Press, 1996).
Kenneally, J., ‘Sexism, the church and Irish women’, Éire-Ireland, 21 (Fall 1986), 3–16.
Kennedy, F., Frank Duff: A Life Story (London: Continuum, 2011).
Kennedy, F., Cottage to Crèche: Family Change in Ireland (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2001).
Kennedy, F., Three Storeys Up: Tale of Dublin Tenement Life (Dublin: Marino Books, 1997).
Kennedy, K. A. (ed.), From Famine to Feast: Economic and Social Change in Ireland 1847–1997 (Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1998).
Kennedy, P. (ed.), Motherhood in Ireland: Creation and Context (Cork: Mercier Press, 2003).
Kessler-Harris, A., ‘Gender ideology in historical reconstruction: a case study from the 1930s’, Gender and History, 1 (1989), 31–49.
Kidd, A. J., ‘Charity organization and the unemployed in Manchester, c. 1870–1914’, Social History, 9 (1984), 45–66.
Kiely, E. and Leane, M., Irish Women at Work 1930–1960: An Oral History (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2012).
Kilfeather, S., Dublin: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press, 2005).
King, S. and Stringer, A., ‘I have once more taken the Leberty to say as you well know’: The development of rhetoric in the letters of the English, Welsh and Scottish sick and poor 1780s–1830s’ in Gestrich, , Hurren, , and King, (eds.), Poverty and Sickness, pp. 69–91.
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