This current volume in the SSNCI series examines a range of charitable endeavors in Ireland, and it examines these initiatives in the context of changing social and political expectations. Contents include: doing good and being bad in Victorian Ireland, Philanthropy and the Care of Children in Ireland, 1850-1922  the Society for Promoting the Comforts of the Poor, 1799-1809,  the Uses of Philanthropy in 19th-century Ireland,  Cultural Philanthropy in the mid-19th century,  Industry, Philanthropy, and architectural innovation,  philanthropic women migrants to Australia, campaigning women philanthropists,  landlordism and philanthropy in 19th-century Ireland, charitable loan fund societies in Ireland, c.1820-1914  the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in Ireland, 1889-1900.