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"The Royal Paragon" : setting out suburban space in nineteenth-century Dublin /Laura Johnstone. --Municipal social housing in Ireland, 1866-1914 /Matthew Potter. --"The Donegalls' backside" : Donegall Place, the White Linen Hall and the development of space and place in nineteenth-century Belfast /Johathan Jeffrey Wright. --The school and the home : constructing childhood and space in Dublin boarding schools /Mary Hatfield. --"High walls and locked doors" : contested spaces in the Belfast workhouse, 1880-1905 /Olwen Purdue. --Levelling up the lower deeps : rural and suburban spaces at an Edwardian asylum /Gillian Allmond. --Locating investigations into suicidal deaths in urban Ireland, 1901-1915 /Georgina Laragy. --Visualising the city : images of Ireland's urban world, c.1790-1820 /Mary Jane Boland. --Forging a shared identity : Irish migrants and steel cities, 1850-1900 /Oliver Betts.

The late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of ruralIreland, attracting them with the promise of employment and economicindependence. For many, however, urban life meant economic precarity,marginalisation and destitution, with the workhouse as an all-too-presentreality. Young families were particularly vulnerable, with the result that thousandsof children found themselves confined within the workhouse walls.This book explores the changing role of the Irish poor law in childwelfare in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century city. Taking as itsfocus Belfast, a burgeoning industrial and port city at the heart of a globaltrade network and a city deeply divided along political and confessional lines,it examines the ways in which that city s poorest children and their families engagedwith the poor law and used the workhouse as part of their economy ofmakeshifts. It examines the various spaces of the poor law - whether theworkhouse, the foster home, or the far reaches of empire - as sites of encounterand engagement between welfare authorities and the city s poorest families, andexplores the development of child welfare practice at a time of increasingstate encroachment into the daily lives of poor children