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Information on mountjoy prison 1900s

  • 12-08-2018 7:42pm
    #1
    Ickycat
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    Hello,

    I am looking for information on what mountjoy prison was like around 1906

    My family found out that one of our ancestors spent some time there doing hard labour.

    She was in the women's prison.

    I'm curious about what life would have been like for her.

    Thank you


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  • #2
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Ickycat wrote: »
    Hello,

    I am looking for information on what mountjoy prison was like around 1906

    My family found out that one of our ancestors spent some time there doing hard labour.

    She was in the women's prison.

    I'm curious about what life would have been like for her.

    Thank you

    Hard labour for a woman was not quite that.

    Sometimes it was described as "work appropriate for her sex".


  • #3
    Ickycat
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Ickycat


    tabbey wrote: »
    Hard labour for a woman was not quite that.

    Sometimes it was described as "work appropriate for her sex".

    Thank you for replying.
    What would that have meant? Something like laundry work?


  • #4
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    Ickycat wrote: »
    Thank you for replying.
    What would that have meant? Something like laundry work?

    Perhaps,or maybe sewing mailbags. They certainly did not do stonebreaking or sawing wood, which male prisoners would do on hard labour.The wood yard was I think the main hard labour in Mountjoy.


  • #5
    Ickycat
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭Ickycat


    tabbey wrote: »
    Perhaps,or maybe sewing mailbags. They certainly did not do stonebreaking or sawing wood, which male prisoners would do on hard labour.The wood yard was I think the main hard labour in Mountjoy.

    Thank you for the information!


  • #6
    Bog Man 1
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭Bog Man 1


    http://www.penandclink.com/mjmuseum/index.html


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