A photograph of the skeletal remains of a three-year-old child, taking during the archaeological excavation at the Kilkenny Union Workhouse in May 2006. Source: Margaret Gowen & Co. Ltd. The Poor ...

Gerard McCarthy, who produced a small exhibition in 2017 in Dublin to mark the 150th anniversary of the famine year 1847, obtained a Kinsale Union Workhouse Register from a two-day period in 1847 ...

Meant to protect Hull's most vulnerable, workhouses and asylums were often the scene of tragedy ...

Vandeleur was known for his widespread evictions in the Kilrush Union. The English workhouse system was introduced to Ireland in 1838 as part of the Irish Poor Law created, in theory, to help ...

The workhouse was built in the town of Birr. At the time, the official name of both the town and the union was Parsonstown. The guardian in question went on to say that ‘while all this pity was ...

“And the Union workhouses,” demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" “Both very busy, sir…” “Those who are badly off must go there.” “Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.” “If they ...

In the 1880s the Billericay Union Workhouse was known as the ‘tramps favourite’ due to the light work its inmates had to carry out and the excellent fare it served up. This was to change ...

The 3,649 sq ft home based in Great Snoring was built 200 years ago and once accommodated 250 people as the Walsingham Union workhouse. But from 1930 the remaining 30 inmates were transferred from ...

Limerick TD and Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced that the 2025 National Famine Commemoration would ...

A bedpan, bandage and scissors made of fabric by Connie Flynn will be on display According to Norfolk Museums, between 1777 and 1948, Mitford and Launditch Union Workhouse - now Gressenhall Farm ...

Families were split up on admission. Newspaper reports from the Victorian period paint a somewhat grim picture of life inside the workhouse, with a number of shocking tragedies making grim reading.