Famine Ireland

A reconstructed image of children arriving at a workhouse

Lost generation: children and the workhouse during the Famine

Tens of thousands of children ended up in workhouses during the Famine - and conditions there were grim, as Gerard Moran explains. This piece contains images that may be distressing.

RTÉ History - Famine Ireland

"That diabolical system": evictions in famine Ireland

'Hunger will break through a wall': food riots during the Famine

Hidden heroes: women and the Great Famine

How the Temporary Fever Act failed to stop epidemics

"This Land of Sorrows": the Poor Law Extension Act 1847

Children and the workhouse

Lost generation: children and the workhouse during the Famine

Forgotten victims: the children found in Kilkenny Workhouse grave

"Paupers and beggars' brats": Parsonstown Workhouse in the Famine

'Dreadful visitation': Lurgan Poor Law Union during the Famine

Charity

Asenath Nicholson, the American who described the Great Famine

'A Labour of Love': the Contribution of the Society of Friends

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

The Hunger: watch the documentary here

About the Great Irish Famine Project

The Great Irish Famine

Famine Ireland

After the Famine

The Lockout

From the RTÉ Archives: Irish memories of WW1

Gallipoli

The 1916 Rising

Overview

The 1918 General Election

The First Dáil

Soloheadbeg

De Valera in America

The Dáil Ban

Suppression of Cumann na mBan

Hunger Strikes

The Munitions Strike

The death of Terence MacSwiney

Bloody Sunday

Martial Law

The Burning of Cork

The Border

The burning of the Custom House

Northern Ireland's parliament opens

The Truce

The Treaty

Overview

Transfer of Power

IRA Convention

The Pact Election

The Battle of Dublin

The Conventional Phase

The Sea Landings

The death of Michael Collins

Guerrilla warfare

The Irish Free State

The arrest of Liam Deasy

The end of the Civil War

The Silent Civil War

The Irish Civil War Fatalities Project

Stardust

The Good Friday Agreement

RTÉ History - Famine Ireland

"That diabolical system": evictions in famine Ireland

'Hunger will break through a wall': food riots during the Famine

Hidden heroes: women and the Great Famine

How the Temporary Fever Act failed to stop epidemics

"This Land of Sorrows": the Poor Law Extension Act 1847

Children and the workhouse

Lost generation: children and the workhouse during the Famine

Forgotten victims: the children found in Kilkenny Workhouse grave

"Paupers and beggars' brats": Parsonstown Workhouse in the Famine

'Dreadful visitation': Lurgan Poor Law Union during the Famine

Charity

Asenath Nicholson, the American who described the Great Famine

'A Labour of Love': the Contribution of the Society of Friends

Lessons of Giving:the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations and the Famine

The Hunger: watch the documentary here

About the Great Irish Famine Project