Poverty, children and the poor law in industrial Belfast, 1880-1918 / Olwen Purdue with Georgina Laragy.

The late 19th-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of rural Ireland, attracting them with the promise of employment and economic independence. For many, however, urban life meant economic precarity, marginalisation and destitution, with the workhouse as an all-too-present reality. Young famil...

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