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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 ...
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...
Oct 7, 2024 · How a Galway family saved 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1960s. The documentary "Ireland's Dirty Laundry" tells how Hugh and Ena McEntee and their three sons rescued girls from a...
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 ...
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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.
Magdalene laundry, an institution in which women and girls were made to perform unpaid laundry work, sewing, cleaning, and cooking as penitence for violating moral codes. Such institutions existed in Europe, North America, and Australia between the 18th and 20th centuries and were often overseen by.
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The Magdalene Names Project began in 2003 and at its inception it involved photographing the Magdalene graves and recording the names of those who died in the laundries so that they could be honoured and remembered.