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Oct 5, 2021 · Marianville and Marianvale also had Magdalene Laundries - workhouses where women were sent for a variety of reasons, including for having a child outside of marriage.
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...
Jan 26, 2021 · A report has found that 10,500 women went through mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland and 3,000 were admitted into Magdalene laundries. The Stormont-commissioned report examined the...
Mar 12, 2018 · Inside were the bodies of scores of unknown women: the undocumented, uncared-about inmates of one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries.
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.
Sep 23, 2016 · Kathleen Legg, 80, lives in Bournemouth, England. A widow with two children, she spent three years at St Mary’s, Stanhope Street, in Dublin – a Magdalene Laundry officially registered as a Training School. Nancy “Some of the girls got lots of beatings.
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Mar 4, 2023 · Kathleen King spent half her childhood in Ballaghaderreen industrial school before being moved to Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. Photograph Jennifer O'Connell
