'Unhappy and wretched creatures': charity, poor relief and pauper removal in Britain and Ireland during the Great Famine, 1847-50
During the Great Famine (1845-51) hundreds of thousands of Irish refugees fled to Britain, escaping the hunger and disease afflicting their homeland. Many made new lives there, but others were subsequently shipped back to Ireland by poor law authorities under the laws of Settlement and Removal. This...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/4921/3/Unhappy-and-wretched_Typescript_FINAL.pdf |