Abstract
C.S. Andrews said of his youth in turn-of-the-century Dublin that as far as inner-city Catholics were concerned ‘there was no such thing as a poor Protestant’. However, the scale of charitable activity both directed towards, and organised by, Protestants in the city would seem to indicate otherwise. The nineteenth century saw a great increase in the number of charitable institutions in Dublin generally, but from the 1870s onwards there was an intensification of Protestant philanthropy in the city. Women in particular played a major role in this invigorated movement, both as administrators and recipients, working with the mainstream movements and, on occasion, carving out autonomous positions for themselves within specific organisations.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 27-31 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | History Ireland |
Volume | 5 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 1997 |
Keywords
- Protestantism
- charity
- catholicism
- orphans
- children
- women
- prisons
- churches
- inmates
- Irish history