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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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Jan 11, 2024 · Full docuseries on Irelands scandalous Magdalene Laundries 1922 - 2023. #stand4truth
Directed and Produced by Steven O'Riordan, The Forgotten Maggies follows the lives of several Magdalene women who left the institutions in Ireland and tried ...
Aug 23, 2023 · The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager. A new BBC drama...
Mar 12, 2018 · Inside were the bodies of scores of unknown women: the undocumented, uncared-about inmates of one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries. Their lives—and later their deaths—had been ...
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.
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What were the Magdalene Laundries? 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.