Begging, Charity and Religion in Pre-Famine Ireland

Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book explores at length for the first time the complex cultures of mendicancy, as well as how wider societal perceptions of and responses to begging were framed by social cl...

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Main Author: McCabe, Ciarán (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 20181031
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