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Oct 5, 2021 · Thousands of women and girls entered the institutions in Northern Ireland over a 68-year period. By Chris Page. BBC News Ireland Correspondent. Were it not for the bravery of survivors, what...
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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- The History of The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland
- The Girls of The Magdalene Laundries
- The Tragic Life of Mary Smith
- Survivors Speak Out
- The Abuse Scandal Breaks
- Magdalene Laundry Survivors Grapple with Their Pasts
The Magdalene laundry system dated back to the mid-18th century. Ireland’s first asylum opened in Dublin in 1765 with the intent to prevent prostitution. The asylum sheltered unwed mothers and women who had premarital sex, hoping to prevent their slide into sex work. Some parents sent their daughters to these asylums to hide out-of-wedlock pregnanc...
Ireland’s Magdalene laundries promised to reform “fallen” women. But who was sent to the asylums? The nuns who ran the asylums took in “promiscuous” women. That category included unwed mothers – and their children. The people incarcerated in the convents also included victims of sexual abuse, women who were deemed too flirtatious, women with disabi...
Mary Smith was sent to a Magdalene laundry in Cork after she was raped. The nuns explained to Smith that she had to be locked away “in case [she] got pregnant.” At the laundry, the nuns cut Smith’s hair and gave her a new name. Like the other inmates, Smith had to work in the laundry and follow a vow of silence. The nuns also beat her. The horrific...
Elizabeth Coppin grew up in the Magdalene laundry system. When Coppin was two years old, her stepfather beat her, so the government removed Coppin from her home and sent her to an asylum. Per court order, she was to be a ward of the court until she reached the age of 16. Instead, she was confined in the laundry system until 19. While there, the nun...
Shockingly, the Magdalene laundries operated well into the 1990s – and the last one closed in 1996. It’s estimated that up to 300,000 “fallen” women passed through Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries between 1765 and 1996. Records show that at least 10,000 girls and women were sent to the laundries between 1922 and 1996. But the true number is likely muc...
Survivors of the abusive laundry system often fled Ireland. “A lot of them didn’t even have passports,” journalist Norah Casey said. “They got the hell out of Ireland as soon as they could and never came back.” In 2018, a group of 220 survivors met in Dublin. While within the asylums many girls were isolated, many survivors were able to connect wit...
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.
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.
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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.
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