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Jul 7, 2023 · In the only known footage to have been filmed from within a Magdalene Laundry, Fr. Jack Delaney removed part of the mystery about the residents of the Catholic-run institutions in Ireland and...
- Frances Mulraney
The Sean McDermott Street Magdalen laundry closed in 1996, the last of the laundries in Ireland. Today, Jenny says: “I hate all nuns. They rile me up. But the convent isn’t all my life, and it...
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. Both institutions were run...
Aug 30, 2020 · The imposing red-brick building, a former Magdalene laundry, stands on top of a hill overlooking the grounds surrounded by thick walls. Mary Gaffney, a woman made to work within that laundry...
Feb 18, 2024 · Adapted faithfully by playwright Enda Walsh from Claire Keegan’s prize-winning novella, Cillian Murphy plays Bill Furlong, a Wexford coal merchant whose unspoken grief collides with a stranger’s...
Dec 31, 2021 · Of the 10 Magdalen Laundries that operated in postindependence Ireland, seven have been demolished or substantially redeveloped and three are currently in various degrees of dereliction. This article considers the potential for extant Magdalen Laundries to become sites of conscience.
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.
