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 ...

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 ...

A 35-year-old author, George Fitzgibbon Lysaght entered the North Dublin Union Workhouse in 1853. Before falling on hard times, George was a wealthy landowner in County Clare. The property was ...

It was the poorhouse records of Depwade Union Workhouse in Norfolk, England, however, that led me directly to the ancestral village of the Weatherlow family. Surfing the Internet, I found the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Take a look at the condo conversion of a workhouse near where a young Charles Dickens lived. The Strand Union Workhouse, which inspired “Oliver Twist,” was built in the 1770s.Credit ...

THE poor law union act was introduced to Ireland in 1838 and each union had its own workhouse, which was built for the relief of the distressed. The Droghe... Monday, 2 June 2025 ...

In the shadow of the BT Tower, the Cleveland Street Workhouse (also known as the Strand Union Workhouse) is not only one of the earliest surviving workhouses in London, it's also a stone’s throw ...

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 ...

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 ...