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1. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-northern-ireland-58789117Mother-and-baby homes: 'Secrets have been shattered' - BBC

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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.

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3. fournationshistory.wordpress.com › 2017/10/02 › 2550Let’s not forget the Scottish and English Magdalene ...

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   Oct 2, 2017 · This week, Jo Thor (New College, Edinburgh) examines nineteenth century Magdalene Laundries and Asylums across the four nations. It is well known that the scholarship of British history has been dominated for a long time by analysis and narrative of English history.

4. www.bbc.co.uk › news › magazine-29307705Demanding justice for women and children abused by Irish nuns

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   Sep 23, 2014 · An inquiry last year into Ireland's Magdalene laundries, where for decades thousands of women were forced to work by nuns, found no evidence that workers were abused.

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5. www.irishcentral.com › roots › historyGalway family saved 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry

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   Oct 7, 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 their three...

6. www.bishop-accountability.org › news2017 › 03_04Life in a Magdalene laundry: Haunting images show children ...

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   Eerie photos from Magdalene Laundries around the world show children eating dinner as nuns watch over them and young women working on heavy equipment. The images give an insight into life inside the laundries, which were places for women branded 'undesirable' by the church and orphaned children, where untold horrors are said to have taken place.

7. metro.co.uk › 2023/08/28 › the-woman-in-the-wallReal story behind grave of 800 babies amid Magdalene ... - Metro

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   Aug 28, 2023 · In 2014, horror ensued when it was claimed that a mass grave of around 800 babies had been found, with it being alleged that bodies had been discovered in an old septic tank in County Galway,...

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   What was Magdalene laundry?

   • Magdalene laundry, an institution in which women and girls were made to perform unpaid laundry work, sewing, cleaning, and cooking as penitence for violating moral codes. Such institutions existed in Europe, North America, and Australia between the 18th and 20th centuries and were often overseen by religious groups.

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

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   What happened in Magdalene Laundries?

   • Children and women in the Magdalene Laundries. Wikimedia Commons A two-part documentary, released in 2022, examining the desperate escape attempts of young women trapped in Magdalene Laundries tells the gripping story of how one Galway family broke 15 women out of one laundry in the 1960s.

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   How did women live in Magdalene Laundries?

   • Some women spent the rest of their lives in a laundry after being admitted. Magdalene laundries were part of a vast network of church-and-state institutions in 20th-century Ireland that included mother-and-baby homes and industrial schools. The former were institutions where unwed pregnant women lived and worked until their babies were born.

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   Why are some laundries called Magdalenes?

   • Some laundries had barred windows and high surrounding walls that kept the women fully separated from society. The women were commonly called “Magdalenes” or “Maggies” (both of which are considered pejorative). Are you a student?

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   How many times did the Magdalene laundry move?

   • The laundry moved several times in ensuing decades. In Ireland the first Magdalene laundry was founded in Dublin in 1765 by Lady Arabella Denny, a philanthropist. It was solely for young Protestant women who had worked as prostitutes or were destitute.

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   What are the secrets of Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland?

   • The harrowing secrets of Magdalene Laundries in the Republic of Ireland began to emerge in the 1990s. But comparatively little is known about the institutions in Northern Ireland. Caroline Magee was sent to the St Mary's laundry in Derry in 1975, when she was in her early teens. She described it as being "very frightening, very steamy, very warm".

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   Magdalene laundry, an institution in which women and girls were made to perform unpaid laundry work, sewing, cleaning, and cooking as penitence for violating moral codes. Such institutions existed in Europe, North America, and Australia between the 18th and 20th centuries and were often overseen by.