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1 day ago · For centuries, women in Ireland who were deemed 'fallen' or 'promiscuous' could be sent to institutions known as Magdalene Laundries. These institutions were state-sponsored and church-run, and ...
3 days ago · The film is based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker-shortlisted story and tells the story of a Wexford man, coal merchant Bill Furlong, who uncovers a terrible scene at the local Magdalene Laundry
Mar 3, 2022 · The new two-part RTÉ documentary Ireland's Dirty Laundry tells the story of the Magdalene Laundries, primarily through the moving testimonies of some of the survivors. Below, producer Nuala...
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...
- Derek Scally
Jul 7, 2023 · Jul 07, 2023. Children and women in the Magdalene Laundries. WikiCommons. In the only known footage to have been filmed from within a Magdalene Laundry, Fr. Jack Delaney removed part of the...
- Frances Mulraney
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...
Ireland's Dirty Laundry. Built on the testimony of those who worked in Ireland's notorious Magdalene Laundries, this documentary tells the full, shocking story of a shameful system, created by the Irish State but supported by all levels of Irish society, which enslaved over 10,000 women for decades. The ... Read all.
