Monday to Sunday (inclusive)
Tour times:10am, 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm.
The workhouse has been described as “the most feared and hated institution ever established in Ireland.” The Irish Workhouse Centre tells the story of the workhouse poor, remembering those who are often lost and forgotten to history’.
The workhouse was an institution which operated in Ireland for a period of some 80 years, from the early 1840s to the early 1920s. There were 163 workhouses in total.
If people could not support themselves, they could come into the workhouse. Here they would do some work in return for food. People had to stay and live in the workhouse and so the system was known as indoor relief.
The Old Tuam Society presents Orphans of the Great Hunger, a two-act play written by Patricia King-Callaghan and directed by Tom O’Donoghue. The performance takes
There will be no tours of the Workhouse on Saturday 10th September while the conference ‘Commemorating the Closing of the Workhouses in Ireland’ takes place.
The Irish Workhouse Centre is delighted to welcome Paula Stokes and her 1845: Memento Mori famine memorial and glass installation. The exhibition is dedicated to
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