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    This article lists all poor law unions in Ireland. Antrim, Ballycastle, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Belfast, Larne, Lisburn Armagh, Lurgan, Newry Carlow, Bawnboy...
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    1948. Scottish poor laws English Poor Law List of Irish poor law unions George O'Brien, the Economic History of Ireland From the Union to the Famine,...
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    The Irish Poor Law Extension Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 31) was an 1847 act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which altered the Irish Poor Law system...
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    Ireland. The legislation was largely influenced by the English Poor Law Act of 1834. Following its enactment, one hundred and thirty Poor Law Unions were...
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  • of the Poor Laws can be said to have passed through three distinct phases. Early historiography was concerned with the deficiencies of the Old Poor Law...
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    European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel...
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    popularly known as the Elizabethan Poor Law, the "43rd Elizabeth", or the "Old Poor Law", was passed in 1601 and created a poor law system for England and Wales...
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    Early Irish law, also called Brehon law (from the old Irish word breithim meaning judge), comprised the statutes which governed everyday life in Early...
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    Scottish poorhouse (category Scottish laws)
    able-bodied; several other ineffective statutes followed until the Scottish Poor Law Act of 1579 was put in place. The Act prevented paupers who were fit to work...
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    By 1838, 573 Poor Law Unions had been formed in England and Wales, incorporating 13,427 parishes, but it was not until 1868 that unions were established...
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    This is a list of notable Irish people who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there...
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    James Stansfeld (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    served as Under-Secretary of State for India (1866), Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1869–71) and President of the Poor Law Board (1871) before being...
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    Office of Public Works. In 1838 Ireland was divided into poor law unions (PLUs), each consisting of a geographical area based on a workhouse. The union boundaries...
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  • Sanitary district (category Sanitary districts of the United Kingdom)
    government bodies Rural sanitary districts in the remaining rural areas of poor law unions. Each district was governed by a sanitary authority and was responsible...
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  • III: N–Z Reports of the Commissioners for inquiring into the number and boundaries of poor-law unions and electoral divisions in Ireland. Parliamentary...
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    purposes. In 1898 poor law unions replaced civil parishes as the basic local government unit. Later "parish councils" which gained a modicum of official recognition...
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  • In Ireland, the penal laws (Irish: Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the...
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    Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting...
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    electoral division in County Tipperary in Ireland. It was originally an electoral division in the Thurles Poor Law Union in North Tipperary but is still used...
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    The Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542 (Welsh: Y Deddfau Cyfreithiau yng Nghymru 1535 a 1542) or the Acts of Union (Welsh: Y Deddfau Uno), were Acts of the...
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    Palatines (redirect from Poor Palatines)
    Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760. p. 302. ISBN 0-1982-0587-2. "The Palatines". Irish Ancestors. Irish Times. Retrieved 27 September 2014...
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    Thomas. The Law of Trade Unions: Being a Text Book Concerning Trade Unions and Labour. Effingham Wilson. London. 1907. p 25. The Laws of England. (Halsbury's...
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    The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the...
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    Labor unions represent United States workers in many industries recognized under US labor law since the 1935 enactment of the National Labor Relations...
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    Treaty of Union in 1706 and the Acts of Union 1707 Kingdoms of England, Wales and Scotland, the Acts of Union 1800 joined Ireland, but the Irish Free State...
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  • hills of County Dublin Mountains Navbox List of townlands of County Dublin, a sortable list with land area, barony, civil parish, and poor law union details...
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    Act, 1912 Indian Trade Unions Act, 1926 The Trades Disputes Act, 1929 Workers who sought better conditions, and trade unions who campaigned through strike...
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    2005, Irish was made an official language of the European Union, the new arrangements coming into effect on 1 January 2007. On 1 January 2022 Irish received...
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  • included various trade unions such as Fórsa, SIPTU and the Teachers Union of Ireland; the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, Pavee Point and the National...
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    Rural district (category Local government in the Republic of Ireland)
    were the responsibility of county councils. Until 1930 the rural district councillors were also poor law guardians for the unions of which they formed part...
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