Leinster Express1d
Incredibly intact Laois famine workhouse museum awarded €200,000
A chillingly intact Irish famine workhouse that still stands in Laois, has been awarded €200,000 to preserve it into the ...
Laois Nationalist1d
Historic Laois workhouse gets €200,000 grant
A HISTORIC building in Laois that captures the devastation of the Great Famine has been awarded €200,000 for restoration ...
The Irish Times1mon
Soup kitchens seen as key to survival
The impact of the Famine is being experienced even in the wealthiest parts of the country. The Belfast union, for example, has problems common to all workhouses at present rapidly increasing ...
BBC10mon
Your Place and Mine - The Famine Orphans of Newry Workhouse - BBC Sounds
The Famine Orphans of Newry Workhouse The Famine Orphans of Newry Workhouse Available for over a year Historian Hugh McShane researches the untold stories of Ireland's Great Famine.
The Globe and Mail21d
Ireland’s Great Famine occurred almost two centuries ago. But it remains a modern disaster
and devolved responsibility for famine relief onto the Irish network of Poor Law Unions, and their austere and violent workhouses. Regional famines continued for nearly four more years.