A NEW memorial was unveiled at a poignant ceremony in Laois, in honour of famine victims buried in a mass grave near a former ...

A resident of Essex in England is on the island to learn more about the Bermudian grandfather she never knew. On August 25, ...

Parish priest Fr Paddy Byrne and Canon Patrick Harvey will officiate at the service in memory of Laois famine victims, who ...

Limerick TD and Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced that the 2025 National Famine Commemoration would ...

Joe Duffy shared a hilarious story about his late mother on tonight's Late Late Show. Joe was on the popular RTE chat show after announcing he was stepping down from Liveline in June. Joe spoke about ...

Poverty has always been a complex challenge, but our views on it have evolved dramatically over time. For centuries, poverty was seen as a fact of life, with charity considered a moral duty.

Ellesmere community arts group, Fizzgigs, is to recreate stories from the town’s workhouse in an original ... a Friday morning performance for 100 children from schools in Ellesmere, Welshampton ...

Ellesmere community arts group, Fizzgigs, is to recreate stories from the town’s workhouse in an original drama written ... team will also be staging a Friday morning performance for 100 children from ...

The workhouse, which was built to accommodate 360 adults and 240 children, admitted the first paupers on 9 January 1844. On that day five men, four women, ten boys, five girls and one infant were ...

An Anoka County Workhouse employee was charged after being ... Court records said at one point, Dunblazier's children allegedly told their father they saw "Mom and [inmate] kissing each other." ...

Cancel anytime. Crews begin the demolition of the Medium Security Institution known as the Workhouse on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in St. Louis. The jail was closed in June 2022. ST. LOUIS — Mayor ...