TY - JOUR
T1 - Mortality among institutionalised children during the Great Famine in Ireland
T2 - Bioarchaeological contextualisation ofnon-adult mortality rates in the KilkennyUnion Workhouse, 1846–1851
AU - Geber, Jonny
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - T. Over half of all victims of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) were children.Many of these deaths took place in the union workhouses: institutions of government poor relief which for many were the last resort in a desperate struggle to survive famine-induced conditions such as starvation and infectious disease. Archaeological excavations of a mass burial ground dating to 1847–1851 at the former workhouse in Kilkenny City have provided the opportunity to undertake a detailed interdisciplinary explorationof non-adult mortality in an Irish workhouse during the height of the Famine
AB - T. Over half of all victims of the Great Irish Famine (1845–1852) were children.Many of these deaths took place in the union workhouses: institutions of government poor relief which for many were the last resort in a desperate struggle to survive famine-induced conditions such as starvation and infectious disease. Archaeological excavations of a mass burial ground dating to 1847–1851 at the former workhouse in Kilkenny City have provided the opportunity to undertake a detailed interdisciplinary explorationof non-adult mortality in an Irish workhouse during the height of the Famine
U2 - 10.1017/S0268416016000096
DO - 10.1017/S0268416016000096
M3 - Article
SN - 0268-4160
VL - 31
SP - 101
EP - 126
JO - Continuity and Change
JF - Continuity and Change
IS - 1
ER -