Old Age in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Chris Gilleard is a visiting research fellow in the Division of Psychiatry at University College London, UK, and senior visiting research fellow at the University of Bath, UK.  Author and co-author with Paul Higgs of a number of books addressing ageing and old age -including Cultures of Ageing (2000); Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment (2013) and  Rethinking Old Age (2015)- his interests in later life span a wide range of disciplines from bio medicine to the humanities.

• List of figures and tables-. Acknowledgements-. Preface-. Chapter 1 Ireland at the time of the Union-. Chapter 2 Ireland’s changing demography-. Chapter 3 Change in family and household structure-. Chapter 4 Poverty and old age-. Chapter 5 Growing older, growing sicker?-. Chapter 6 Conclusions-. Appendices-. Bibliography-.