Institutionalising changing conceptualisations of charity in Ireland: Charitable loan fund societies in Ireland 1729-1823

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorO'Connor, Ray
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-26T09:52:17Z
dc.date.available2022-09-26T09:52:17Z
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.date.updated2022-09-26T09:45:47Z
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a detailed account of the origins, ethos and distribution of charitable loan fund societies in Ireland between 1729 and 1823. Charitable loan fund societies differed from other early financial institutions because they were area-based philanthropic societies that sought to animate a philosophy of poverty relief that advocated self-help and self-reliance. They were institutional articulations of early modern ideas about the role and nature of charity and how charitable acts should be administered. This article explains the origins of the first charitable loan fund established by Dean Jonathan Swift in St Patrick’s Parish, Dublin city and provides new insights into the origins of the second loan fund operated by the Dublin Charitable Musical Society. It traces the spread of thirty-two charitable loan fund societies across Ireland in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first two decades of the nineteenth century and places them in the wider context of the associational culture that emerged in Ireland from the mid-eighteenth century. It provides a very brief account of the origins and modus operandi of each charitable loan society and argues that a critical factor impeding the greater spread of the loan fund schemes was a lack of capitalen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Connor, R. (2022) 'Institutionalising Changing Conceptualisations of Charity in Ireland: Charitable Loan Fund Societies in Ireland 1729-1823, Studia Hibernica, 48 (1), pp. 37-61. doi: 10.3828/sh.2022.3en
dc.identifier.doi10.3828/sh.2022.3en
dc.identifier.endpage61en
dc.identifier.issn0081-6477
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleStudia Hibernicaen
dc.identifier.startpage37en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13663
dc.identifier.volume48en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherLiverpool University Pressen
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.3828/sh.2022.3
dc.rights© 2022 Liverpool University Pressen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectCharitable Loan Fund Societiesen
dc.subjectCharityen
dc.subjectPhilanthropyen
dc.subjectPovertyen
dc.subjectDean Jonathan Swiften
dc.subjectCharitable Musical Societyen
dc.titleInstitutionalising changing conceptualisations of charity in Ireland: Charitable loan fund societies in Ireland 1729-1823en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Institutionalising_Changing_Conceptualisations_of_Charity_in_Ireland.pdf
Size:
402.6 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Accepted version
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Geography - Journal Articles