This case study provides the first account to focus on the career and work of a master of an Irish workhouse. It explores the role of a master in respect of issue such as management, governance and the provision for the poor in post-Famine Ireland during the fourteen-year period when John Ferrall served as Master of Sligo Workhouse. It illuminates how the poor-law system evolved in terms of medical and other services in the 1850s and 1860s despite the limitations laid down for the system in law and the ineffective governance provided by the annually elected Sligo Poor Law Boards of Guardians and the detailed regulations of the remote Poor Law Commissioners in Dublin.
| ISBN: | 9781846828034 |
| Publication date: | 6th September 2019 |
| Author: | Fergus OFerrall |
| Publisher: | Four Courts Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 61 pages |
| Series: | Maynooth Studies in Local History |
| Genres: |
European history |
This case study provides the first account to focus on the career and work of a master of an Irish workhouse. It explores the role of a master in respect of issue such as management, governance and the provision for the poor in post-Famine Ireland during the fourteen-year period when John Ferrall served as Master of Sligo Workhouse. It illuminates how the poor-law system evolved in terms of medical and other services in the 1850s and 1860s despite the limitations laid down for the system in law and the ineffective governance provided by the annually elected Sligo Poor Law Boards of Guardians and the detailed regulations of the remote Poor Law Commissioners in Dublin.
John Ferrall features in the following genres: European history
John Ferrall is available in Paperback
John Ferrall was written by Fergus OFerrall and published by Four Courts Press
John Ferrall has 61 pages
Yes it is part of Maynooth Studies in Local History series