O Mahony, Colman.

Cork’s Poor Law Palace – Workhouse Life 1838-90 [1890].

No.35 of a Limited Edition of only 300 copies printed. Monkstown, Cork, Rosmathun Press, 2005. Octavo (16.5 cm wide x 24.3 cm high). XIV, 338 pages with photographs, illustrations, Workhouse Plan (Frontispiece). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by the author. An extremely rare book !

Includes the following chapters:

Creation / Famine / Removal School / Training / Work / Health I / Health II / Exiting / Ideology

With Appendices:

Appendix I: Workhouse and hospital dietaries
Appendix II: Cork Mayors 1837-1891
Appendix III: John Arnott’s entry in Cork Workhouse visitor’s book, 6 April 1859

With a thorough Index and a Pictorial Section to the rear of the Volume.

Image showing are for example:

1. The Cork House of Industry in the Early Years of the 19th century (from Will West, Cork Directory, 1810, page 62)
2. Architect George Wilkinson’s Drawing of Cork Workhouse in 1844
3. Street Beggars in Cork in the early 1840s
4. Distribution of Indian Corn at the Government’s Cork Store in April 1846
5. Interior of a Peasant’s Hut at the Time of the Famine
6. Jack Murphy, A Lunatic Pauper in the Cork Workhouse in 1850
7. Jeremiah Sullivan, A Patient suffering from ‘Morbid Somnolence’ in the Cork Workhouse Hospital
during the year 1885
8. Dr.Charles Tanner MP
9. Rev. George Webster, Protestant Chaplain of Cork Workhouse
10. Emigrant Steamers at Cork in 1851
11. Old Entrance Gate to Carr’s Hill Graveyard
12. Sir John Arnott
13. Conditions in A bedroom of a Cork Tenement in the Early Years of the 20th Century
14. Lanes in Cork City at the beginning of the 20th century

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 32551AB

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