Sujet

The Workhouse, Clifden, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Workhouse, Clifden, 1850. Poverty in Ireland during the Potato Famine. 'Clifden itself is an exotic in an unfavourable climate. It was reared by the patronage of the late Viscount; and since that ceased, if began to decline: ths Poor-law has almost finished it'. View of '...the workhouse, which I send as a memorial of this pet place of the late Viscount Clifden...As I see before me the sickening evidence of its operation, it is plain, whatever measures may be required to regenerate Ireland, that the Poor-law is only the climax of the ignorant legislation that, operating in silence through ages, has perverted the Irish, and made their naturally fertile abode one scene of desolation'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM22A33_486

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43,3Mo (2,9Mo) / 42,0cm x 25,8cm / 4960 x 3050 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building country British republic of ireland Ireland Irish poor poverty location Victorian century Britain newspapers press concept famine B&W Clifden engraved engraving County Galway destitute 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News Poor Law TGN workhouse ILN outside newspaper landscape Unknown Great Hunger Great Famine Irish potato famine 19th-century