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Understanding homelessness in Ireland since independence : decades in the making /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: O'Sullivan, Eoin (Author), Allen, Mike (Author), Sheridan, Sarah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : University of Bristol Press, [2026]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Homelessness > Ireland > History.
Homelessness > Government policy > Ireland.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Understanding Homelessness in Ireland since Independence: Decades in the Making
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Timeline
  • Introduction: Colonial inheritances
  • 'Homelessness' prior to Independence
  • Vagrants and the workhouse
  • The vagrant question
  • The institutionalisation of marginality
  • Charitable organisations
  • Housing
  • Urban housing conditions
  • Conclusion
  • 1 Poor Laws, the family economy and housing policy, 1922-​1948
  • Introduction
  • Political and economic context
  • Land and the family economy
  • Homelessness, public assistance and institutional provision after Independence
  • The Commission on the Relief of the Sick and Destitute Poor, including the Insane Poor
  • Public rental housing post-​Independence
  • Private rented housing post-​Independence
  • Urban slums
  • Differential rents in public housing
  • Tenant purchase schemes
  • Emigration and homelessness
  • The 1948 White Paper: Housing: A Review of Past Operations and Immediate Requirements
  • Conclusion
  • 2 The end of the Poor Laws, economic development and modernisation, 1948-​1963
  • Introduction
  • Political and economic context
  • Emigration
  • Casuals and the Inter-​Departmental Committee on County Homes
  • Composition of those experiencing homelessness
  • The Health Act, 1953 and Casuals
  • 'Blackguards' and the law
  • Social security and public assistance
  • Housing policy, the Capital Investment Advisory Committee and economic development
  • Local authority housing
  • Tenant purchase
  • Housing tenure in Ireland, the decline of private rented housing and ending rent control
  • Conclusion
  • 3 Housing policy, housing agitation and the emergence of the homelessness sector, 1964-​1981
  • Introduction
  • Political and economic context
  • Closing the Casual Wards
  • Deinstitutionalisation and homelessness
  • Attitudes to homelessness, vagrancy and the law
  • The emergence of youth homelessness
  • Social movements and civic society
  • Dublin Housing Action Committee
  • Campaigning for the single homeless
  • Adult homelessness in the early 1970s: extent and service provision
  • Housing policy
  • White Paper: Housing -​ Progress and Prospects
  • White Paper: Housing in the Seventies
  • Kenny Report
  • Local authority housing
  • Differential rent
  • Tenant purchase schemes
  • Abolition of domestic rates
  • Private rented housing
  • Emigration
  • Conclusion
  • 4 Two housing bills and one act, 1981-​1988
  • Introduction
  • Political and economic context
  • The level of homelessness and conditions in residential services for those experiencing homelessness
  • Social movements and civil society
  • Growing visibility of youth homelessness in the 1980s
  • Housing supply and allocations
  • Increased housing supply and homelessness