Ireland’s Carceral Cure for Poverty
For much of the twentieth century, Ireland’s ruling class resisted social-democratic reforms. Instead, they treated poverty as a moral failing – and built a brutal carceral state to correct it.
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Sarah-Anne Buckley
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.