This talk focuses on how the poor and vulnerable were treated after the closure of the workhouses in Co Clare in 1922. It will use Kilrush as a case study and look at County Clare Nursery, the boarding-out scheme and the home assistance programme. Sources include the Kilrush UDC minute books, Board of Guardian minute books and newspaper reports.
This was the focus of Rita's MA studies in University of Limerick where she went on to undertake a PhD researching women's emigration from Ireland between 1939 and 1970.
Rita has also produced and presented a radio documentary on the 1935 Dance Hall Act and its impact on the social life of west Clare.
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