Babies were buried, without coffins, one on top of the other in the 9ft-deep chambers of of a septic tank in Tuam, Galway ...

In December 1843, work on the workhouse in Athy was completed. The first inmates were admitted to the workhouse on 9 January ...

The Workhouse Arts Center is expanding its dance program by launching more kids’ and adults’ classes. It held a Dance Open House on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019, where people could visit the ...

Stormont has been urged to remove a “cruel clause” that “writes out” thousands of women, girls and their children in a mother ...

On Monday, July 1, McLean resident Keith Gordon steps into his new position as the President and Chief Executive Officer at the Workhouse Arts Foundation, Inc., which operates the Workhouse Arts ...

Workhouses were often crowded with poor sanitation. Children were often beaten. Years later, Mrs Outerbridge never talked about her late husband.

Six months previously Mrs Utting and her husband and four children had been in the West Derby Workhouse but were removed to the Sculcoates Union in Hull.

Ellesmere community arts group, Fizzgigs, is to recreate stories from the town’s workhouse in an original drama written by two of its members.

ANOKA COUNTY, Minn. — An Anoka County Workhouse employee was charged after being accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with an inmate. Court documents said 30-year-old Kendra ...

A call has been made for records relating to former mother and baby institutions, Magdalen Laundries and workhouses in Northern Ireland. It comes as part of a Truth Recovery Programme to ...

Indeed, it is no surprise that many of the female inmates at Birkenhead Workhouse were widows, often with children in tow. The workhouse school, in 1881, had 213 pupils on its books and eight ...