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Small Things Like These: Magdalene laundries drama is a powerful rumination on compassion – and its limits
Melodramas like The Magdalene Sisters and that other notable Magdalene story, Philomena (2013), find a form of closure ...
The Conversation via Yahoo
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Eileen Walsh on Small Things Like These: ‘In any religion, it’s the women who’ll be controlled’
INTERVIEW: The actor, who’s starring opposite Cillian Murphy in a new film about the Magdalene laundries and the lasting ...
The Independent
4 days ago
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society.
Mar 12, 2018 · The interior of the now derelict Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott St in Dublin’s north inner city on the day of The Irish Government apologized to the...
Jun 2, 2018 · Horror years. Her time there and in other institutions had been “horror years”, she says. “The nuns took my childhood.” Today she is just 40 – unusually young for a former Magdalen resident – and...
- Deirdre Falvey
The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film by Peter Mullan, is centred on four young women incarcerated in a Dublin Magdalene laundry from 1964 to 1968. The film is loosely based on and "largely inspired" by the 1998 documentary Sex in a Cold Climate , which documents four survivors' accounts of their experiences in Ireland's Magdalen institutions. [ 76 ]
Feb 5, 2013 · Two survivors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries have spoken of their experiences. Marina Gambold was taken to a laundry aged 16 by a priest. She remembers being forced to eat off the floor.
The Magdalene Sisters, a 2002 film by Peter Mullan, is based on historical facts about four young women incarcerated in a Magdalene laundry in Ireland from 1964 to 1968. In 2011, a monument was erected in Ennis, County Clare, dedicated to the Sisters of Mercy, who had an industrial school and a Magdalene Laundry in the town. In 2015, Ennis ...
1 day ago · Melodramas like The Magdalene Sisters and that other notable Magdalene story, Philomena (2013), find a form of closure when their victims confront their oppressors.
