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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our website is temporarily unavailable in your location. We are working hard to get it back online. The 34-year-old actress travelled to Cashel, Co Tipperary US actress Mandy Moore made an emotional ...

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 ...

DUBLIN — Advocates for survivors of a Roman Catholic workhouse system that kept generations of young women and girls in virtual slavery expressed disappointment and anger on Tuesday at Prime Minister ...

Ireland has expressed regret that thousands of women and young girls held in workhouses run by Catholic nuns were stigmatized by the label "fallen women." But Prime Minister Enda Kenny did not ...