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- Title
Manifestations of Institutional Reform and Resistance to Reform in Ulster Workhouses, Ireland, 1838-1855.
- Authors
Thomas, Liz
- Abstract
The new Irish and English poor laws of the nineteenth century were based on ideologies prevalent during the period of Improvement. The workhouse was the central instrument of these new Acts. Through an archival and archaeological methodology, this paper investigates the physical manifestations of the governing ideologies of reform and improvement and the manifestations of resistance to this reform in one type of institution, Ulster's nineteenth-century workhouses (a province that spans Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). It also reflects on how these once despised institutions are now used, through community efforts, as recreational and 'reform' centers.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WORKHOUSES (Correctional institutions); CHANGE; RESISTANCE to change; HISTORY of Ulster; POOR laws; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 4, p867
- ISSN
1092-7697
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10761-017-0401-x