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1. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-northern-ireland-58789117Mother-and-baby homes: 'Secrets have been shattered' - BBC

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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...

2. fournationshistory.wordpress.com › 2017/10/02 › 2550Let’s not forget the Scottish and English Magdalene ...

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   Oct 2, 2017 · This week, Jo Thor (New College, Edinburgh) examines nineteenth century Magdalene Laundries and Asylums across the four nations. It is well known that the scholarship of British history has been dominated for a long time by analysis and narrative of English history.

3. www.irishtimes.com › life-and-style › health-familyMary’s story: The Magdalene laundry survivor who still lives ...

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   Aug 30, 2020 · But she is still knitting and keeping her spirits up. READ MORE. Gaffney, now 74, has lived her entire life in institutions run by nuns. She is one of many Magdalene survivors who, although the...

4. www.bishop-accountability.org › news2017 › 03_04Life in a Magdalene laundry: Haunting images show children ...

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   Eerie photos from Magdalene Laundries around the world show children eating dinner as nuns watch over them and young women working on heavy equipment. The images give an insight into life inside the laundries, which were places for women branded 'undesirable' by the church and orphaned children, where untold horrors are said to have taken place.

5. archive.org › details › episode-420-the-magdalene13 O'Clock Episode 420: The Magdalene Laundries of Ireland ...

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   Sep 4, 2024 · The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland were institutions run primarily by Catholic religious orders from the 18th to the late 20th century, where women and girls were sent to work, often under harsh conditions.

6. www.irishtimes.com › life-and-style › peopleThe last of the Magdalenes: 'The nuns took my childhood'

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   Jun 2, 2018 · 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...

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   What happened at Magdalene Laundries?

   • Were it not for the bravery of survivors, what happened in mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries would have largely remained hidden in history. But secrets have been shattered - and the power of shame broken - by the testimonies of people who suffer trauma to this day. The last institution in Northern Ireland closed only in 1990.

   Mother-and-baby homes: 'Secrets have been shattered' - BBC

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   What are the secrets of Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland?

   • The harrowing secrets of Magdalene Laundries in the Republic of Ireland began to emerge in the 1990s. But comparatively little is known about the institutions in Northern Ireland. Caroline Magee was sent to the St Mary's laundry in Derry in 1975, when she was in her early teens. She described it as being "very frightening, very steamy, very warm".

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   Are Magdalene Laundries closed?

   • “These institutions are closed but the knock-on effects are onto the next generation.” Hundreds of Magdalene Laundries survivors will be honoured by the City of Dublin at the Mansion House on June 5th and 6th.

   The last of the Magdalenes: 'The nuns took my childhood' - The Irish Ti…

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   Why did the Magdalene Laundries need public money?

   • Instead public money went to the orders to maintain them within institutions. When in around the 1970s the Magdalene laundries struggled to remain economically viable, the religious congregations requested that the State fund them to keep ageing women and women with disabilities in the institutions.

   Mary’s story: The Magdalene laundry survivor who still lives there

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   Where is Magdalene laundry?

   • The front door and hallway of the now derelict Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin’s north inner city. Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire

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   How many former Magdalene laundry residents are still living in Ireland?

   • In 2013, when the McAleese report – the result of an inquiry overseen by then senator Martin McAleese into State involvement in Magdalene laundries – was published, there were at least 58 former Magdalene laundry residents still living in the custody or care of religious orders in Ireland.

   Mary’s story: The Magdalene laundry survivor who still lives there

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8. mldl.omeka.netMagdalene Laundries Digital Library

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   This space aims to provide the public with virtual access to former Magdalene laundry sites. Magdalene laundries were institutions for women where human rights abuses occurred. Ten such institutions existed in the Republic of Ireland (not including those in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom).