Only one thing held his attention. In 1850 as a 13-year-old old boy on his way to school he passed the Barclay Iron Works. He said he was captivated, even obsessed with the red, glowing rivulets ...

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These brain fragments ocame from an individual buried in a Victorian workhouse cemetery in the United Kingdom, some 200 years ago. No other soft tissue survived amongst the bones, which were ...

Locals, who attended last Friday evening's Mass at Clogheen Workhouse Cemetery, l-r: Larry McGrath, Mary McGrath, Moll Sullivan, Anne Fitzpatrick, Ellen McCarthy, Cllr Marie Murphy and Lucy McGrath.

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

The Minnesota Legislature has passed legislation that will allow state teachers to retire a little earlier, if they choose. While it still needs the signature of Gov. Tim Walz, the bill includes ...

Aisling Bea is well into her pregnancy while filming Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC One, Tuesday, 9pm), and so it is not surprising that the Kildare-born, London-based comedian and actor’s ...

Mrs Outerbridge struggled so much financially after Mr Outerbridge died that their son, John, was born in a workhouse. She was made to scrub floors only days before the baby arrived. Workhouses ...

The conversation, led by Near FM’s Ciarán Murray, will explore how by the end of the nineteenth century, the workhouse functioned as Dublin's largest and most accessible medical institution. We will ...

One of Shrewsbury’s favourite summer fixtures is making a splash once again, and organisers are promising this year’s Severn Hospice Dragon Boat Festival will be the biggest and best to date. Lizzy ...

“As we gather in the Famine Memorial Park within the historic Kilmallock Union Workhouse complex, this is the first time that the State Commemoration has taken place in County Limerick. May I ...