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1 day ago · The last of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries closed in 1996 (Image: PA Archive/PA Images). In a famous act of protest against abuse in the Catholic Church, singer Sinead O'Connor ripped up a photo of ...
Oct 5, 2021 · Women and girls were sent to the laundries by their families, welfare authorities, the courts, police, clergymen and church organisations.
Oct 7, 2024 · How a Galway family saved 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1960s. The documentary "Ireland's Dirty Laundry" tells how Hugh and Ena McEntee and their three sons rescued girls from a...
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,...
- Sabrina Barr
Jun 2, 2018 · Now just 40, ‘Jenny’ was one of the last generation to live in Ireland’s Magdalene laundries. A former resident outside the laundry at Sean McDermott Street, where there are posies and a...
- Deirdre Falvey
Feb 16, 2024 · CILLIAN MURPHY HAS said that the Magdalene Laundries scandal has continued to be a “collective trauma” that is still being dealt with by the Irish public. The Oscar and Bafta nominee, 47, is...
Sep 14, 2023 · From the late 18th century to 1996, thousands of women and girls in Ireland were sentenced to unpaid labor in the convent-run workhouses known as Magdalene laundries, many of them for “sins ...
