And yet half a mile from the Belfast workhouse at Queen's University, life for some couldn't have been more different. Footage of Sir Winston Churchill's visit to Queen's in 1926 shows well-to-do ...

Opened in 1841, what little is left of the workhouse for the destitute is now part of City Hospital, but for several years a ...

"A lot of workhouse burial sites are marked in the Republic and Northern Ireland, and Belfast was a huge workhouse and there’s nothing to mark it, so that really surprised me." ...

A short documentary narrated by its filmmaker, Eanna Mac Cana, charts the evolution of healthcare on the site of the Belfast City Hospital, from its origins as a 6-bed unit treating the sick of ...

Belfast City Council has been urged to formally mark a hidden burial ground containing more than 10,000 bodies dating back to the Irish famine. ... The workhouse closed in 1948 and has since been ...

From the workhouse to Westminster Biography Forty-one years ago, in 1966, Gerry Fitt was elected MP for West Belfast in the Westminster parliament. Michael Farrell ...

Workhouse records reveal rural Ireland’s harsh past On July 31, 1838, the Poor Law was introduced to Ireland. The hardship of the souls who sought salvation from disease and starvation are ...

The grey stone building, in which day procedures now take place, was once the Belfast Workhouse. Thousands of men, women and children were still housed there in the 1920s.

A stone building on the Belfast City Hospital site was once a workhouse, housing thousands in the 1920s.