... Workhouse meeting He said it was essential that the city retain the building which was one hundred and forty years old and perhaps the only remaining workhouse in existence in Ireland. He said schools and other groups would be interested in visiting the ...

... WORKHOUSE BURIAL The victims were taken from the Quayside sheds for burial to Derry Workhouse, which had been opened the previous year; the building then stood in open country. Clergy from the Established Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches officiated ...

... WORKHOUSE DEAD Sir — I note with great interest a recent article, which sadly did not carry a byline, entitled ‘The Workhouse Dead’. It appeared on Page 20 of the ‘Journal’ in your edition of July 18th. As 1 know there is considerable public interest ...

... Workhouse Dead The article entitled The Workhouse Dead” which appeared in Tuesday's Journal was written by local historian, Patrick Durnin. £250,000 awarded to Foyle Fisheries Commission ...

... OLD WORKHOUSE ' Strabane Hospital House Committee proposed 10 the Management Committee that the old workhouse building at Strabane should be g'm down and the area covered it used to provide a new nurses’ home, a new hospital and a special care school ...

... BALLYSHANNON WORKHOUSE ANTHONY BEGLEY provides a striking throwback to the time when the workhouse in Ballyshannon was in full operation and unable to cope. As elsewhere, destitution was rampant in south-west Donegal at the start of the nineteenth century ...

... Workhouse Debate Should the Derry workhouse building be preserved? That's the topic for debate by the Colmcille Debating Society on Thursday next, May 23 at 8-30 p.m. in the building which until recently housed Waterside General Hospital. The debate has ...

... Workhouse Folklore Sir — I am indebted to the ‘folklore’ contribution of Mr. Carr with regards to the Old Derry Workhouse, albeit in response to a careless error on my part concerning its location, and would appreciate any further contribution he could ...

... WORKHOUSE DEAD Sir — Leo McClafferty of John mention seems to have been L. McClafferty & Sons, Derry made of them when the prison funeral directors, once made a .. demalizhed. The duns e comment on the poor buried oo . to have been forgetien. within the ...

... WORKHOUSE PRESERVATION THE AMENITIES and Leisure Committee of Derry City Council voted unanimously at its meeting on Thursday night last to support the Waterside Local History Group in its efforts to protect and preserve the Waterside Workhouse and to ...

... Workhouse Talk The North West Archaeological and Historical Society will host a talk on the Derry Workhouse in Central Library, Foyle Street, this Thursday, January 16 at 8 p.m. The talk will be given by local historian, Patrick Durnin, author of ** Derry ...

... WORKHOUSE EXHIBITION Sir — I would like to comment on the Workhouse Exhibition currently taking place in the grounds of the former Waterside General Hospital. The Waterside Community History Group who are presenting the exhibition have given the Derry ...