By Chris Gilleard

utilizing a mix of statistical research of census fabric and social historical past, this e-book describes the getting older of Ireland’s inhabitants from the beginning of the Union as much as the creation of the outdated age pension in 1908.  It examines the altering demography of the rustic following the Famine and the impression this had on family and kinfolk constitution.  It explores the transforming into challenge of overdue existence poverty and the residualisation of the elderly unwell and terrible within the workhouse.  Despite sluggish advancements in lots of components of lifestyles for the younger and the operating sessions, the booklet argues that for the elderly the union used to be a interval of starting to be immiseration, introduced unusually to an finish via the unheralded creation of the outdated age pension. 

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