The Workhouses of Ireland: The Fate of Ireland's Poor by John O'Connor

The Workhouses of Ireland: The Fate of Ireland's Poor

John O'Connor

303 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Far worse than Dickensian horrors of Victorian society were the workhouses established by the English government in 1838 for the poor in Ireland who often chose to perish outside their walls, rather than enter another kind of death inside. This is...

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