Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: The Case for Improvement
- 1 ‘The Worst in Christendom’: The Church of Ireland and Improvement
- 2 Education and Charity: The Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland
- 3 To Cure and Relieve: Voluntary Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
- 4 Improvement as Philanthropy: The Royal Dublin Society
- 5 ‘The Benevolent Sympathies of the Female Heart’: Women, Improvement, and the Work of Lady Arbella Denny
- 6 National and Local Government and Improvement
- Conclusion: Philanthropy and Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Ireland and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: The Case for Improvement
- 1 ‘The Worst in Christendom’: The Church of Ireland and Improvement
- 2 Education and Charity: The Incorporated Society for Promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland
- 3 To Cure and Relieve: Voluntary Hospitals in Eighteenth-Century Dublin
- 4 Improvement as Philanthropy: The Royal Dublin Society
- 5 ‘The Benevolent Sympathies of the Female Heart’: Women, Improvement, and the Work of Lady Arbella Denny
- 6 National and Local Government and Improvement
- Conclusion: Philanthropy and Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Ireland and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Charity Movements in Eighteenth-Century IrelandPhilanthropy and Improvement, pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016