Biblio Ireland

Author: O’MAHONY, Michelle.

Dublin: Mercier Press, 2005. 190 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

One hundred and sixty years ago Ireland’s Great Famine began. Within five years, some two and a half million people had died. Thousands fled to the hated workhouses, hoping desperately for some relief.

Famine in Cork City sheds light on the horrific physical conditions of the inmates in one such workhouse, Cork Workhouse (now St Finbarr’s Hospital), and explores the tragic effects of the famine as they unfolded in the city.

CONTENTS:-

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1    The Origins and Development of the Cork Union Workhouse, 1838-41
2    The Role of Cork Union Workhouse during the Famine
3    Inmate Health
4    The Children of the House
5    Institutional Culture

Concluding Thoughts

Appendices
1    Cork Poor Law Unions Pre-1850 and Post-1850
2    Questionnaire on the Epidemic Fever in Ireland (1848)
3    Assisted Emigration, November 1849 and May 1850
4    Emigration - Inter-Union, Inter-Country
5    List of Physicians and Surgeons in Cork City 1846
6    Irish Workhouses, Cork Examiner, 20 September, 1847
7    Thirteenth Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland
8    Table showing the increase in the National Schools, and attendance figures
9    Report on Cholera by the Workhouse Physicians
10  Salary Accounts, June 1847 and December 1848

ISBN: 1856354555

Related titles: Famine, Workhouses
Categories: Cork, Modern History.