Child Welfare and Class in Ireland: An Historical Overview

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday March 29, 2011 14:41 by anarkitty - wsm

a talk by Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley

in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street

Dr. Sarah-Anne Buckley lectures in History at UCC. She is the author of a number of articles and is currently preparing her book on the history of child welfare in Ireland for publication, titled Child Welfare, the NSPCC, and the State in Ireland: 1889-1956. She recently completed a history of the Haematology Association of Ireland (HAI),
and her next project is a comparative history of child welfare in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Britain. She will be speaking on child welfare and class in Ireland, in particular the discrimination against poor and working class children by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the continued use of
institutionalisation by the Irish State to deal with poverty in families.