An Irish historian has uncovered workhouse documents dating back to the Irish potato famine in 1847 which brutally highlights the horrors of the Great Hunger. A Kinsale Union Workhouse Register ...

Those professionals institutionalized in the Dublin workhouses include: - 1,130 doctors and nurses - 1,056 teachers - 321 soldiers - 321 soldiers - 175 solicitors and lawyers ...

Ireland’s government sent thousands of women to toil in “harsh and physically demanding” Catholic-run workhouses known as the Magdalen Laundries, a report finds. CNN values your feedback 1.

DUBLIN (AP) -- Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor, often against their will, a fact-finding report ...

Ireland has expressed regret that thousands of women and young girls held in workhouses run by Catholic nuns were stigmatized by the label "fallen women." But Prime Minister Enda Kenny did not ...

When the South Dublin workhouse opened in 1840, one quarter of its paupers were children. The number of children forced to avail of the workhouses increased after 1845 and by February 1847, 63,000 ...

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Whether abandoned as ruins or reclaimed for modern use, about 10 workhouses from the 1840s and 1850s still stand as reminders of the Famine, for which the earliest were built just in time.

With such overcrowding and disease, in the 1840s 250,000 Irish indigent perished in these workhouses, conceived to reform the "savage" Irish.

Menacing, jail-like institutions called workhouses dotted the Irish countryside. These were rooted in an older English practice: In early 17th-century England, ...

Ireland’s government sent thousands of women to toil in “harsh and physically demanding” Catholic-run workhouses known as the Magdalen Laundries, a report finds. CNN values your feedback 1.