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

How those in an Irish workhouse during the Great Hunger spent Christmas Day. The year 1847 is known in Irish history as Black ’47. It was, possibly, the worst year of the Great Irish Famine.

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 ...

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 ...

Last entry to the site is 15.00. May close early due to low light levels or high winds/extreme weather.

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 ...

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 ...