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Magdalene Laundries. Season 04 : British Isles Episode 04 : Magdalene Laundries : Ireland Historically, it’s never been easy to be a woman. Even today in fact, depending on what part of the...
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- Somewhere Sinister
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🔍 Join us on a poignant journey through the dark history of Magdalene Laundries, institutions that concealed a heartbreaking reality of exploitation and abuse. In this video, we explore the...
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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.
- What Were The Magdalene Laundries?
- How Many Women and Girls Were Confined in The Laundries?
- How Were Women and Girls Confined in The Laundries?
- What Were Conditions Like in These Institutions?
- Where Are The Survivors Today?
From the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 until 1996, at least 10,000 (see below) girls and women were imprisoned, forced to carry out unpaid labour and subjected to severe psychological and physical maltreatment in Ireland’s Magdalene Institutions. These were carceral, punitive institutions that ran, commercial and for-profit businesses ...
The ‘official’ figure of 10,000 women and girls who were confined in the laundries is is a significant under-estimate by the Report of the Inter–Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries (also known as the McAleese Report, after Senator Martin McAleese who chaired the committee). The Sisters of M...
Women and girls were confined in the Magdalene Laundries through a variety of channels, including: women and girls sent by the judicial system (including those committed informally or as a condition of probation, those held on remand, sent to the Laundries after release from Prison sentences and those sent to the Laundries instead of Reformatory Sc...
Once inside the convents, girls and women were imprisoned behind locked doors, barred or unreachable windows and high walls (oftentimes with broken glass cemented at the apex). They were usually given no information as to when or whether they would be released. Upon entry, their names were often changed and they were given an identification number....
In JFMR’s experience, Magdalene survivors (and their family members) fall into five main categories: firstly, those who have spoken out and demanded justice; secondly, those who continue to live in silence; thirdly, women who are still living in institutional settings under the control of religious orders; fourthly, those who died both inside and o...
Mar 6, 2016 · Survivors remember Ireland’s Magdalene laundries. Women incarcerated in Catholic Church-run institutions and forced to work for free remember those who died in them. Relatives of victims of the...
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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...
