Every year descendants of the thousands of orphaned Irish teenage girls sent to Australia during the Great Famine gather in ...

The aims: provide domestic servants for European settlers, potential wives for convicts to help populate the new colony, and to lessen numbers in Irish workhouses. Over 1848-1850, the scheme ...

Last week Kanturk Tidy Towns unveiled a Famine Pot in memory of those who died during the Great Famine (1845-1850). This historic artefact was unearthed by a local farmer when he was working on ...

For a group known as the “ins and outs”, though, the workhouse clearly held no fear. Such individuals treated the institution like a free lodging house, staying for a few days or weeks at a time and ...

Only the bare essentials were provided; the atmosphere being one of penury!' Conditions in the Dundalk Workhouse were at their worst during the Great Famine period and afterwards; and Noel also points ...

“Here lie the mortal remains of the inmates who died in the workhouse between 1842 and 1852, many of whom perished as a result of the Thyphus and Cholera epidemics during the devastating years of the ...

The poem centres on a couple who leave a West Cork workhouse during the Famine, dying on their way back home. It resonates in these strange times as never before. a man set out from the workhouse with ...

30 self sponsored volutneers will be brought into the Famine Workhouse Attic in Carrick-on-Shannon - one of the few surviving in ... of the period to help build a picture of what the country and the ...

General Paints, the Celbridge-based paint manufacturer behind the brand Colourtrend, is to invest €5m into its headquarters, a former Famine-era workhouse. Rachel O’Connor, MD of General ...

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