Review: Lindsey Earner-Byrne.  Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940.  Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xii+284 incl. 5 ills.

Rose Luminiello

doi:10.1017/S0022046920000974

Review: Lindsey Earner-Byrne. Letters of the Catholic Poor: Poverty in Independent Ireland, 1920-1940. Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. xii+284 incl. 5 ills.

Rose Luminiello

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This paperback edition of Lindsey Earner-Byrne's Letters of the Catholic poor is a valuable addition to the bookshelf of any social or cultural historian of independent Ireland. Earner-Byrne establishes in her introduction that she wishes to present the experience of poverty in Ireland through the lens and words of the poor themselves, in order to personalise the experience of poverty.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	893-894
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Volume	71
Issue number	4
Early online date	26 Oct 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046920000974
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

Keywords

Ecclesiastical History
Irish History
Social History
Twentieth Century Europe

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