A Painful and Tender Sympathy Pervaded Every Class of Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4053039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aoife O’leary Mcneice (0000-0002-6377-8050) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 143 |
| Pages | 165-176 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radical History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-6545 • E-ISSN: 1534-1453 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/01636545-9566188 |
| OpenAlex | W4281653396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
The Great Irish Famine was a moment of unprecedented global giving. Sympathy for the suffering Irish traversed class hierarchies and vast geographical spaces, with indentured workers in the West Indies donating alongside members of the royal family and attendees at charity balls and galas in New York, Port Elizabeth, and Surrey. This article examines the socioeconomic geographies of this giving. It provides a quantitative analysis that brings together donations from both sides of the Atlantic, approaching these donors as a single global community. This famine giving is also considered within the context of wider traditions of Western humanitarianism. The article suggests that although famine humanitarianism mobilized a vast community of donors and traversed class, gender, and ethnic groups, it was ultimately a conservative force that upheld social hierarchies and replicated the socioeconomic and racial inequalities that characterize Western humanitarianism more generally
Archaeology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Famine · Irish · Political science · Population · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Sympathy · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology
Outcast London
The Great Irish Famine and Social Class
The Irish through British Eyes
Moral Capital
The Society of Prisoners
The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870–1912
The Culture of Giving
Distant Suffering
There But For The Grace of God Go I’
Voluntary Societies and British Urban Elites, 1780–1850
The Noblest Offering that Nation Ever Made to Nation
Literature and the Irish Famine 1845–1919
Heritages of hunger
The Next World and the New World
Humanitarianism and the Overseas Aid Craze in Britain's Colonial Straits Settlements, 1870-1920
Advertising consumer goods in nineteenth-centuary Britain
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |