Macroom's Dr Con Kelleher, Macroom has published a new book on Macroom Union Workhouse (other material is also included). The Great Irish Famine 1845-1852 was the defining event of modern Irish ...

Reporter David Medcalf cranked up his trusty computer and took a skim through material posted online by Wicklow County Council Archivist Catherine Wright with the workhouse records at Wicklow County ...

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 ...

You know you’re winning when opponents begin attacking wildly. Such was the case with the recent Post-Dispatch editorial’s misinformation about Close the Workhouse. The Post ought to at least get its ...