Tens of thousands of children ended up in workhouses during the Famine - and conditions there were grim, as Gerard Moran explains. This piece contains images that may be distressing.

Workhouse records reveal rural Ireland’s harsh past On July 31, 1838, the Poor Law was introduced to Ireland. The hardship of the souls who sought salvation from disease and starvation are ...

A bill to establish an inquiry into the homes "just deepens the sense of marginalisation", a survivor has said.

An amateur historian posited children had been buried in "a sewage tank." A government commission investigated her claims.

The conditions in Parsonstown Workhouse in Birr, County Offaly, were horrendous. As Andrés Eiríksson explains, what happened there exemplified the worst responses to the Famine ...

Authorities in Ireland have begun excavating a former Catholic-run mother and baby home in Tuam, where up to 796 children are ...

Ireland’s rugged and beautiful landscape has captivated people’s imagination for generations. As picturesque as it may be, however, the North Atlantic island can be an unforgiving environment ...

Forensic teams are excavating a mass grave at a former Catholic-run home in Tuam, where 796 babies were allegedly dumped by ...

As work begins on the excavation of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home we detail everything you need to know about ...

L. to r. John Reed, Kieran Tuohy, Sculptor, Paul Mullins SEGIRD, Martin Shiel, SEGIRD, Christy Cunniffe, SEGIRD, Donal Burke, ...

The project will create a legacy for future generations while honouring people forced into the workhouse by hunger. JUDY ...

The site once held a prisoner-of-war camp and a cholera hospital before being converted into a Victorian workhouse, archaeologists said. Screengrab from Cotswold Archaeology's Facebook post Along ...