Mothering strategies and the early twentieth-century Irish workhouse: a microhistory
By Judy Bolger
Published in Women's History Review, January 2026.
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Published in Women's History Review, January 2026.
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Abstract
This article traces an Irish woman pauper, Bridget Moynihan, in a County Limerick workhouse across several births and part of her lifecycle to demonstrate that for some women, the workhouse provide...