Luxury and Austerity Book

	List of illustrations
	Abbreviations
	Introduction
1	Austerity, necessity and luxury	1
2	The idea of monastic austerity in early Ireland	14
3	Concepts of generosity in early modern England	30
4	Dives and Lazarus in sixteenth-century Ireland	46
5	Public and private uses of wealth in Ireland, c. 1660-1760	66
6	Hospitality, housekeeping and high living in eighteenth-century Ireland	84
7	Matters material and luxurious: eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Irish linen consumption	106
8	'The whole country was in motion': mendicancy and vagrancy in pre-famine Ireland	121
9	The charities and famine in mid-nineteenth century Ireland	137
10	Irish Presbyterians and the great famine	165
11	Luxury and austerity, patronage and charity: landlords and a Galway convent in the nineteenth century	182
12	Poverty and plenty: the Victorian contrast	198
13	'A living saint if ever there was one': work, austerity and authority in the lives of Irish women of the house, 1921-1961	213
	Contributors to this Volume	230
	Index	232