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Reviews 'This is an insightful and enlightening study, lucidly written and grounded in meticulous research in a wide range of sources, many of which have been given only cursory treatment by historians to date.' Maura Cronin, Irish Economic and Social History 'McCabe initiates a much needed shift in focuses from the urgent response to a humanitarian crisis in the wake of the potato blight to a comprehensive analysis to how Irish society tackled the challenges and instituted a framework to meet the needs of the most vulnerable on a daily basis. In this way, McCabe's book is essential reading when considering the ways an analysis of class, gender and religion in Pre-Famine Ireland illuminates how a growing sense of social awareness not only surfaced in this period but shaped the way Irish society would define and advance itself into the modern era.' Victoria Anne Pearson, Women's History Association Ireland

'McCabe initiates a much needed shift in focuses from the urgent response to a humanitarian crisis in the wake of the potato blight to a comprehensive analysis to how Irish society tackled the challenges and instituted a framework to meet the needs of the most vulnerable on a daily basis. In this way, McCabe's book is essential reading when considering the ways an analysis of class, gender and religion in Pre-Famine Ireland illuminates how a growing sense of social awareness not only surfaced in this period but shaped the way Irish society would define and advance itself into the modern era.' Victoria Anne Pearson, Women's History Association Ireland

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Ciarán McCabe is an Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the School of History, University College Dublin. His current research project examines the survival strategies of working-class women in Dublin between 1850–1950, and this project is associated with the Dublin Tenement Museum (14 Henrietta Street).

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