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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.02,0:00:13.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. Today I will be talking about the Poor House, or Workhouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.01,0:00:24.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Poor House” is the old name. Today they are more commonly known as workhouses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.01,0:00:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Ireland they were set up back in the 1700s, for example in Dublin and Belfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.02,0:00:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poorhouses then were for people who had no work and were poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.01,0:00:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they came, they would have food, but would be expected to go to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.50,0:01:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1703 a “House of Industry” was established in Dublin by an Act of Parliament.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.01,0:01:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is akin to the Poor House, for poor people so they could go to work and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.02,0:01:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The government in England passed a law in 1834, which was their own law.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.02,0:01:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ireland followed suit four years later, and passed its own legislation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.08,0:01:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After following the English example, in 1838,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.02,0:01:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the new law, the Irish Poor Law Act, came into force.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.02,0:01:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before the Act was passed, there weren't many Poor Houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.04,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one here and one there, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.02,0:01:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, after 1838, Poor Houses became more numerous
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.10,0:01:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with about 150 or so built in places like Cork, Galway, and all around the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.36,0:02:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example... erm...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.01,0:02:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today Dublin County Council would provide housing and so on,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.02,0:02:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but back then they did not have this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.03,0:02:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we have charities like St Vincent de Paul, that people go to if they need help.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.04,0:02:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then, they didn't have that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.02,0:02:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they needed help, they had to go to the Poor House.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.06,0:02:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1790, the Belfast Poor House was established and funded by local people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.09,0:02:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without government assistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.06,0:02:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Poor House was near a Deaf school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.06,0:02:36.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Poor House had a hospital, doctor, free food,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.06,0:02:39.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they went to the Poor House regularly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.05,0:02:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a Deaf child was unwell, he would go there to the Poor House.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.02,0:02:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sign for Poor is this, the Poor House eventually became a hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.04,0:02:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Belfast City Hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.04,0:02:58.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This meant that local Deaf people would eventually use
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.01,0:02:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same sign of “Poor” to mean “Hospital”.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.09,0:03:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Note the ISL sign for hospital is this, but in Belfast, it is this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.94,0:03:04.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In England, it's yet again different.