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Oct 7, 2024 · Oct 07, 2024. Children and women in the Magdalene Laundries. Wikimedia Commons. "Ireland's Dirty Laundry," a two-part documentary that aired on RTÉ in 2022, tells how Hugh and Ena McEntee and...
Sep 23, 2024 · Magdalene Laundries were institutions run by Catholic orders in Ireland, where women and girls were sent to work, often under harsh conditions. These laundries operated from the 18th to the late 20th century. The women, known as "Maggies," were typically unwed mothers, orphans, or those deemed "fallen" by society.
Oct 8, 2024 · "Ireland's Dirty Laundry," a two-part documentary that aired on RTÉ in 2022, tells how Hugh and Ena McEntee and their three sons heroically rescued 15 girls from a Magdalene Laundry in Galway city in 1963.
Oct 4, 2024 · The Derry woman felt embarrassment and shame for decades about having a baby at 19 in the Magdalene laundry in Marianvale in Newry.
Oct 5, 2024 · Outside the school gates, the local Magdalene Laundry, not a few hundred metres away, still billowed smoke into our skies and took the heart and soul out of another generation of young women. When we walked through the grounds on a short-cut to the shops, there they were, with shorn hair and stained aprons standing outside the door having a fag ...
2 days ago · A statement from fellow Magdalene Laundry activists posted on the 64-year-old’s Rip.ie death notice reads: ‘To those of us privileged to work alongside Mari for many decades, we will remember her as a fiercely committed advocate, a strategically minded activist, a deeply courageous leader, and a loyal, fun-loving, and selfless friend.
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Oct 8, 2024 · (Photo by Fiona Ward) Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 Irish girls and women, specifically unmarried mothers, and those considered promiscuous, sexually abused, and/or a burden to their families or the state, were imprisoned and subjected to forced labor in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.
