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1. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk › news › tvChilling true story of 'nation's shame' that inspired ...

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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 ...

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

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   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.

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     The Woman in the Wall | The History of the Magdalene Laundries | SHOWTIME

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     "The nightmares will always be there": These Magdalene survivors tell their personal stories

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     The Forgotten Maggies Official Documentary (52 min) Magdalene Laundries

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

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   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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6. www.irishcentral.com › roots › historyGalway family saved 15 women from a Magdalene Laundry

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   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...

7. jfmresearch.com › home › magdalene-names-projectMagdalene Names Project - Justice for Magdalenes Research

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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.

8. www.britannica.com › topic › Magdalene-laundryMagdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

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   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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   What was Magdalene laundry?

   • 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 religious groups.

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   How did women live in Magdalene Laundries?

   • Some women spent the rest of their lives in a laundry after being admitted. Magdalene laundries were part of a vast network of church-and-state institutions in 20th-century Ireland that included mother-and-baby homes and industrial schools. The former were institutions where unwed pregnant women lived and worked until their babies were born.

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   How many times did the Magdalene laundry move?

   • The laundry moved several times in ensuing decades. In Ireland the first Magdalene laundry was founded in Dublin in 1765 by Lady Arabella Denny, a philanthropist. It was solely for young Protestant women who had worked as prostitutes or were destitute.

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   Why are some laundries called Magdalenes?

   • Some laundries had barred windows and high surrounding walls that kept the women fully separated from society. The women were commonly called “Magdalenes” or “Maggies” (both of which are considered pejorative). Are you a student?

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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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   How do you find the Magdalene Laundries?

   • Ironically, searching for the ‘occupation’ of the women proved to be the most reliable method of finding the Magdalene Laundries entries. More often than not the women’s ‘occupation’ was noted as ‘laundress’ or sometimes ‘seamstress’, and in some cases accompanied by the term ‘inmate’ in another column.

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10. www.bbc.co.uk › news › magazine-29307705Demanding justice for women and children abused by Irish nuns

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    Sep 23, 2014 · An inquiry last year into Ireland's Magdalene laundries, where for decades thousands of women were forced to work by nuns, found no evidence that workers were abused.