Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.
A Scientist, geologist, explorer, but perhaps more importantly a humanitarian who gave up the lavish lifestyle of a 19th century aristocrat to travel the world and help out the poor including the people of Ireland during the worst years of the Great Irish Famine.
Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.
Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.
Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.
This talk will be discussing various artifacts in the workhouse Museum. Visitors will be encouraged to pick an artifact and the guide will discuss it in greater detail. Artifacts regarding the daily life of the inmates who resided in the workhouse, the medicines given to the sick, the tools used during the daily work the […]
This event consists of a specialist tour and discussion of previous conservation works undertaken at the Irish Workhouse Centre. We will also discuss our plans for the future. The event will consist of a walk and talk examining the form and function of the central buildings and structures on the campus, looking at the works […]
Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.
In this talk "Medicine in the 19th Century", some of the more peculiar aspects of 19th century medical practice will be explored in relation to Portumna Workhouse. These will include the persistent belief in the miasmatic explanation for the spread of disease and its effects on the well-being of workhouse inmates. The common practice of […]
Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.
4175 Girls left Ireland for South Africa and Australia over a two year period in 1848 to 1850. A British Government Emigration funded Scheme. This talk will take place on Tuesday the 18th of August 2026 at the irish Workhouse Centre. There will be a Q & A at the end
Every Day for Heritage Week the 2pm Guided Tour of the Irish Workhouse Centre is Free to the public. Tour includes 'Dark Shadows' sculptural exhibition by Kieran Tuohy and David Rooney's 'Famine Artworks' from the BBC series 'The Story of Ireland'.