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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Each November several hundred people gather at a standing stone memorial in Williamstown – the first settlement of colonial Melbourne, Australia. They are remembering the Irish Famine orphan ...

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.