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Digitalized records reveal that even highly trained professionals were forced into workhouses by the misery of the Irish famine. Over 2.5 million historical records revealing the hardship of Ireland’s ...

Isotopic analysis of teeth may identify signs of starvation in human tissues from 19th century Irish workhouse residents, according to a new study. Isotopic analysis of teeth may identify signs of ...

Almost two thirds of the 545 youngsters buried in the mass grave were under six while workhouse records show the mortality rate for babies under the age of two was four times higher than older ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland’s government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor, often against their will, a fact-finding report ...

The 2026 National Famine Commemoration will take place at the Irish Workhouse Centre in Portumna, Co Galway, on Saturday, May 16, Galway County Council has confirmed. The State ceremony, which will ...

The Irish government is to pay survivors of Magdalene laundries at least 35m euros ($45m, £30m). The laundries were Catholic-run workhouses where thousands of women and girls had to do unpaid, manual ...

For too many years those that depended on the workhouse were forced to sleep on cold floors, lined with a piece of straw. The food was poor and clothing not much better. There was no washing facilites ...