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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 ...
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
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.
Oct 7, 2024 · Children and women in the Magdalene Laundries. Wikimedia Commons. "Ireland's Dirty Laundry," a two-part documentary that aired on RTÉ in 2022, tells how Hugh and Ena McEntee and their three...
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
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 · Cillian Murphy: ‘Magdalene laundries were a collective trauma for people of a certain age’. After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree some progress on Magdalene laundries is...
