Destitute Poor News Today

By Conor Forrest GOOD news for historians and family history researchers – Kildare Co Council’s County Archives service has made a selection of interment…

Nearly 18,000 pages of records relating to the Poor Law Unions of Athy and Naas are now available to view online.

Published today, the final report from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission makes for sobering reading, showing that in the place of the pre-natal care cited by Litster was neglect, instead of ‘proper diet’ was malnutrition, rather than ‘fresh air’ came incarceration and far than ‘freedom from worry’, the women placed in those institutions were shamefully mocked amid the anguish of their labour and left with life-long trauma. The Commission finds that 9,000, or one-in-seven of all ...