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Digitalized records reveal that even highly trained professionals were forced into workhouses by the misery of the Irish famine. Over 2.5 million historical records revealing the hardship of ...
The building was one of 160 workhouses throughout Ireland designed by architect George ... of the project was transcribing the admission records. She said people could come and discover "who ...
A CALL has been made for records relating to former mother and baby institutions, Magdalene Laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland. It comes as part of a Truth Recovery Programme to ...
The Catholic Church in Ireland is facing fresh accusations ... even their own families. Records indicate that the former Tuam workhouse's septic tank was converted specifically to serve as the ...
They are beautiful records and we are lucky ... which was experienced in the West of Ireland did not happen on the same scale in Wicklow. If the workhouse register is a reliable guide, then ...
For more than a century, many people of Irish descent have faced a daunting predicament when searching for details about their families’ pasts. A 1922 fire at the Public Records Office in Dublin ...
Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 is a list of over 49,000 names of Irish-born men who served in regiments of the British army or foreign-born men (usually British conscripts) who served in ...