They called it “relief.” But for thousands of Irish children, the Workhouse was a nightmare they never escaped. Little girls forced to scrub floors for scraps of bread… brothers separated from sisters… children punished simply for being poor. Most were orphans. Many never made it out alive. Ireland remembers what the world tried to forget. 👉 Have you ever heard the truth about the Irish Workhouses? Comment YES or NO — I want to see something. Save this story. Share it so their suffering is neve
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They called it “relief.” But for thousands of Irish children, the Workhouse was a nightmare they never escaped. Little girls forced to scrub floors for scraps of bread… brothers separated from sisters… children punished simply for being poor. Most were orphans. Many never made it out alive. Ireland remembers what the world tried to forget. 👉 Have you ever heard the truth about the Irish Workhouses? Comment YES or NO — I want to see something. Save this story. Share it so their suffering is neve
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Misery of the Irish famine workhouse. These places were set up in multiple locations across Ireland around the time of the famine and that was when there was so many poor people are as they were known as paupers. And of course when the potato failed they really were destitute and desperate and the work houses were the only option. They gave up whatever they had and entered and signed up to misery and in many cases debt and did not even have a graveyard with dignity. value of their lives was abse
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