Famine Mass Graves at Skibbereen Workhouse
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The workhouse was the final refuge for thousands of starving people during Ireland's Great Hunger.
The Skibbereen Union was one of the worst affected areas in Ireland by the crisis and its workhouse was grossly overcrowded and underfunded. The smaller workhouse at Schull was opened in the early 1850s.
Thousands died in the Skibbereen Workhouse during the Famine of the 1840s and, at first, these victims were buried in the infamous 'Famine Pits' at Abbeystrowry. Then, from 1847 onwards, they were buried 'in trenches' in the workhouse burial ground.
This short film gives brings us some eye witness accounts from the Skibbereen Workhouse Burial Ground of conditions in the workhouse itself, and the awful circumstances surrounding the burials there in mass graves.
I'm not in to Irish history and was never very fond of my home country, but this brings home how near ago the famine was (I couldn't have told you), and the scale and the suffering of so many people.
Plus the seeming inhumanity and cruelty of many people of the time, both in relation to the famine but more directly those horrendous workhouses where humans were treated awfully. Seems like any religion Catholicism could turn a blind eye if it wanted to.
I grew up in Cork City until aged 17, but my father's family were originally from Skibbereen, though we seldom passed through it.
I lost touch with my remaing family at that age, in 1977, so this fills a gap for me. I'm living in London 37 years (now hate it here too - being impoverished but not on the scale here) previously living in Dublin for 10 years until 1987.
Thanks for the video.
This is so heartbreaking. Thank you
Thanks Joan, it was heartbreaking to make too but #intheirhonour
2023 and still nothing is taught in UK schools about the British oppression in Ireland...absolutely disgraceful.
As someone born in England it disgusts me what the British did to the Irish.
Was it burn on purpose?
Yes Patricia, during our revolutionary period when it was feared it would be used to billet British forces