In this video, Gerard Moran explains how the workhouse system devastated Irish families during the Famine. You can find out more about children's experiences of the Famine workhouses here, and learn about the horrors of one particular workhouse here. You can read how the 2005 discovery of a mass famine grave at the site of a Kilkenny workhouse told a tragic story of the Famine's youngest victims here, and here you can learn how mismanagement in Lurgan made the prosperous region's workhouse the site of some of the highest death rates in the country.
20.08.1845
The Great Irish Famine
