The workhouse diet : an account of the food provided in Portumna workhouse / Steve Dolan

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portumna : Irish Workhouse Centre ; ©2018Description: 10 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
Subject(s): Summary: The diet in the workhouse only improved moderately before they finally closed in Ireland on independence, in the early 1920s. Those who experienced food in the workhouse never forgot it and passed down the stories, hence the rich albeit negative legacy in folklore
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The diet in the workhouse only improved moderately before they finally closed in Ireland on independence, in the early 1920s. Those who experienced food in the workhouse never forgot it and passed down the stories, hence the rich albeit negative legacy in folklore

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