Huge numbers of the city’s poor lived and died in grim conditions in a massive Donegall Road site, and it’s estimated upwards of 10,000 people are buried in a now-hidden graveyard that was once ...

In the late 1840s, the ground in south Belfast was used to bury poor people from a nearby workhouse. Historian Dr Robyn Atcheson has called on the council to take action. "I would love to see ...

Conditions in the workhouse were deliberately awful as the government at the time thought people would take advantage of charity. Not all people had such a negative view of the poor. The Belfast ...

In the late 1840s, the ground in south Belfast was used to bury poor people from a nearby workhouse. Historian Dr Robyn Atcheson has called on the council to take action. "I would love to see ...