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 ...

Laois locals have been invited to attend a public consultation meeting on the future of a landmark building. On Monday April ...

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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 ...

Bawnboy Workhouse Committee are continuing their appeal for a lease on Bawnboy Workhouse from Cavan County Council to carry ...

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne TD, and Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and ...

Investigators in Ireland have been pursuing an excruciating question: It is how women came to be stuck in a modern day workhouse. That's a kind of forced labor camp we associate with some earlier age, ...

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 ...