Queen’s Historians go to Gaol:
Prison, poorhouse and philanthropy in the lives of Belfast’s poor, 1800-1939
As part of the ‘Queen’s in the Community’ initiative, members of the School of History are holding an event at Crumlin Road Gaol where we will discuss the poor, criminal and sick of Belfast in the past.
ALL WELCOME.
Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast
Time: 2.30 -4.30 pm
Date: Wednesday 17 April 2013
Venue: Crumlin Road Gaol, 53-55 Crumlin Road, Belfast, BT14 6ST (Lanyon Suite) see www.crumlinroadgaol.com for information on where it is.
Contact: g.laragy@qub.ac.uk
Listen here for further information on the event http://www.rte.ie/radio1/the-history-show/podcasts/
Programme
I: ‘Welfare and public health in Belfast and its region, 1800-1973’
AHRC Project Presentation (2.30 – 3.30)
Prof. Peter Gray, Poor law debates in pre-famine Belfast
Dr Olwen Purdue, ‘A den of drunkenness, immorality and vice’; the workhouse and the poor in late nineteenth-century Belfast
Dr Sean Lucey, In sickness and health: Belfast in the inter-war period
Dr Georgina Laragy, Tracing the inmates of Belfast’s criminal and welfare institutions, 1901–1911
Q & A
II: Student Poster Presentations (3.30 – 3.45)
Robyn Acheson, Churches and the Belfast Poor, 1830s-40s
Stuart Irwin, The Revd. Dr Henry Montgomery and the establishment of the Shankill Road Mission, 1896–1912
Q & A to occur informally during TEA and COFFEE
III: Criminal Women (4.00-4.30)
Dr Elaine Farrell, Criminal women in Belfast, 1850-1900
Q & A
can anyone tell me what was The Donegall Road mission and sisterhood, I have found a bible presented to a great aunt by the above, before she left for New York in 1915
I have done a little digging for you to find out but do not have any clear answers. The Belfast Street Directory for 1900 (which is the one closest to your date available online at PRONI click here for details http://streetdirectories.proni.gov.uk/media/CtMhT27PZ0Z7iUnCg2YGeQ..a?ts=O9aF8hLWr1w0Qq5cw6MmeA) lists both a Presbyterian Church on Donegall Road which may have had a mission attached to it. There was also the Bethel Day Nursery and Mission Hall at No. 30 Donegall Road. A quick look at the Census for 1901 suggests that there were two families living at this address, and in 1911 there appears to be no building at No. 30 although this may be an error on the website. The link to Donegall Road can be found by clicking here and finding the next link to Donegall Road. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Antrim/St__George_s/
For more information on what Presbyterian church missions actually did you might want to check out a blog post above written by Stuart Irwin on the Shankill Road Mission.
I hope this is of some help.