SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY 2 January 2000 I Channel 4 !

... 15143 g 130 OLIVER TWIST Classic adaptation of @ Charles Dickens's novel about an orphan who flees the brutality of ! the workhouse and finds himself : forced into a life of petty crime in : the hellish underworld of . ; (1948) bw) 23834 * -_ 3.30 GREAT ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 491 | Page: 115 | Tags: none

tlli iic When 'Johnny the Rock' conducted auctions from a wheelbarrow in Pound St

... St.. and Martin Murphy and his son. Charlie. were pack-men who travelled around the country. Nixon Parke was clerk in the Workhouse; Tom Gardiner was teacher in the asylum; Mr. Vernon was chief clerk in the Courthouse together with Dan McGill, Pound St ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Sligo Champion
County: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1446 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

No proposal

... community nursing units and hospital units are required in locations where there are none at present. Old, unsatisfactory workhouse type accommodation must be replaced with modern buildings and equipment. New day care centres are required in many areas ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Sligo Champion
County: Sligo, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

The Wedding Ring

... man be charged with stealing his wife’s wedding ring? This question was raised at a meeting of Ipswich Guardians, when the workhouse master reported that the husband of a mentally deficient woman in the house had taken her wedding ring away. The matter was ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

seen huge

... holiday all over the world. A drawing of St. Mary's Abbey, Drogheda, from 1797. I r 7 4 - k A picture of the old Drogheda Workhouse, which was erected in 1841. 1. ,er._ .4* • • _ . . MM. 1..ft•ft. 1t dig ii 1 ' A .4 St '., •--:_- ...

Published: Friday 07 January 2000
Newspaper: Drogheda Independent
County: Louth, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 793 | Page: 54 | Tags: none

Bunnies galore

... Hospital’s main building. It has a precedent for providing shelter. When the building was opened on May 11 1841, it was a workhouse. i ) ) - oy ] p 6 A £ ) N Lod .—.-' | pry E 2 ’ :».-‘ )“I,} : ')3-/ 3 2 \;1 vr o’ 2 e A 0 l,‘- , - - S fw N\ Ny t/‘, ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 743 | Page: 78 | Tags: none

– say Strabane councillors

... chairman said unless it was absolutely essential, the fence should be taken away to enhance the appearance of the former workhouse property. The call for more transparency at the local authority’'s headquarters was made at the council's DUP Councillor ...

Published: Friday 14 January 2000
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 774 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

breaking successes. Rehearsals

... to greater unparalleled success in Dundalk, and even took up the offer to perform annually for the inmates at the Dundalk Workhouse, added Gerry Foran. scene for the arrival of a host of Such was the respect and admiratalented actors and Directors in lion ...

Contracts signed as growing Naas

... is already in place. Present accommo- original site of the Naas Workhouse. dation at Naas Hospital consists of built in IMO. In the past 160 years 125 beds. this has evolved from a workhouse to FOR SALE BY TENDER FRIDAY I I -- FEBRUARY 2000 ..- ess D . ...

Published: Wednesday 19 January 2000
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 215 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

The countryside of old was not all golden straw and picturesque happiness. SUSAN HILL counts the blessings of ..

... children scaring birds and picking up stones in fi elds in all weathers, for half-pence. Old people being taken by force to the workhouse. Cottagers doffing their caps to the squire and the parson. Fields aflame, then blackened and trees scorched, after stubble ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 2000
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1113 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

By lAN STARRETT

... Protestant community - will be held in the mainly Protestant Waterside. The discussion will take place next Thursday at the Workhouse Museum, Glendermott Road, Waterside. ...

Published: Thursday 20 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Bloody Sunday programme launched

... presentation and discussion examining the significance of Bloody Sunday to the Protestant community which will be held in the Workhouse Museum. Glendermott Road. Waterside and a fundraising concert featuring The Whole Tribe Sings” and guests at the Nerve Centre ...

Published: Friday 21 January 2000
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 403 | Page: 29 | Tags: none