Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured ...
Two boys discovered the grave a half-century ago but the true horror was not known until a local historian began digging into ...
DUBLIN - Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and usually against their will, a fact-finding report ...
Ireland has expressed regret that thousands of women and young girls held in workhouses run by Catholic nuns were stigmatized by the label "fallen... Panel: Ireland Confined Young Women In Workhouses ...
Laois locals have been invited to attend a public consultation meeting on the future of a landmark building. ADVERTISEMENT - ...
Northern Ireland's First Minister and Deputy First Minister have introduced legislation to establish an Inquiry into Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses; and an associated ...