
The Catholic Cure for Poverty
Through the twentieth century, Irish elites treated poverty as a moral failing — and built a brutal carceral state to correct it.
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Sarah-Anne Buckley is a lecturer in history at the National University of Ireland, Galway, author of The Cruelty Man About Child Welfare in Ireland, and editor of Soathar: the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society.
Through the twentieth century, Irish elites treated poverty as a moral failing — and built a brutal carceral state to correct it.