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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Irish Deaf Archives - Poor-Houses/Workhouses: The Backgrounnd)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.01,0:00:06.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Narrated by Shane Gilchrist)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.25,0:00:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. Today I will be talking about the Poor House, or Workhouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.11,0:00:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Poor House” is the old name. Today they are more commonly known as workhouses.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.12,0:00:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Ireland they were set up back in the 1700s, for example in Dublin and Belfast.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.25,0:00:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Poorhouses then were for people who had no work and were poor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.07,0:00:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they came, they would have food, but would be expected to go to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.08,0:00:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Something happened in 1703)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.99,0:01:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1703 a “House of Industry” was established in Dublin by an Act of Parliament.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.08,0:01:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is akin to the Poor House, for poor people so they could go to work and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.15,0:01:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Ireland and England had separate Poor Law Acts.)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.25,0:01:19.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The government in England passed a law in 1834, which was their own law.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.22,0:01:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ireland followed suit four years later, and passed its own legislation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.22,0:01:26.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Ireland Poor Law Act 1838)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.83,0:01:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After following the English example, in 1838,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.16,0:01:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the new law, the Irish Poor Law Act, came into force.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.19,0:01:42.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before the Act was passed, there weren't many Poor Houses,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.39,0:01:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one here and one there, and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.18,0:01:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, after 1838, Poor Houses became more numerous
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.99,0:01:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with about 150 or so built in places like Cork, Galway, and all around the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.76,0:01:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(How the Poor-Houses helped)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.77,0:02:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example... erm...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.14,0:02:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today Dublin County Council would provide housing and so on,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.23,0:02:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but back then they did not have this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.26,0:02:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we have charities like St Vincent de Paul, that people go to if they need help.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.44,0:02:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then, they didn't have that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.18,0:02:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they needed help, they had to go to the Poor House.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.32,0:02:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Belfast Poor-House)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.58,0:02:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1790, the Belfast Poor House was established and funded by local people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.87,0:02:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without government assistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.63,0:02:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This Poor House was near a Deaf school.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.62,0:02:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Poor House had a hospital, doctor, free food,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.57,0:02:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they went to the Poor House regularly.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.53,0:02:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If a Deaf child was unwell, he would go there to the Poor House.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.20,0:02:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our sign for Poor is this, the Poor House eventually became a hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.40,0:02:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Belfast City Hospital.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.39,0:02:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This meant that local Deaf people would eventually use
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.06,0:02:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same sign of “Poor” to mean “Hospital”.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.91,0:03:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Note the ISL sign for hospital is this, but in Belfast, it is this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.53,0:03:05.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In England, it's yet again different.