Yahoo Web Search

Search results

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

   www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-northern-ireland-58789117

   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.

2. Videos

   • 

     2:06

     youtube.com

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

     30 Jan 2024

     15.2K views

   • 

     2:0:29

     youtube.com

     The Forgotten Maggies Official Documentary (52 min) Magdalene Laundries

     1 Apr 2016

     367.7K views

   • 

     14:00

     youtube.com

     CBS Magdalene Laundries Documentary

     2 Jan 2024

     11.5K views

   View all

3. Images

   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 
   • 

   View all

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

   www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk › news › tv

   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 ...

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

   www.irishtimes.com › life-and-style › people

   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 ...

   • Author: Deirdre Falvey

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

   jfmresearch.com › home › magdalene-names-project

   • Cached

   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.

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

   www.irishcentral.com › roots › history

   • Cached

   Oct 7, 2024 · "Ireland's Dirty Laundry," a two-part documentary that aired on RTÉ in 2022, tells how Hugh and Ena McEntee and their three sons heroically rescued 15 girls from a Magdalene Laundry in...

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

   fournationshistory.wordpress.com › 2017/10/02 › 2550

   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.

9. People also ask

   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.

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

   www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalene-laundry

   See all results for this question

   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.

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

   www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalene-laundry

   See all results for this question

   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.

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

   www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalene-laundry

   See all results for this question

   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".

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

   www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-58789117

   See all results for this question

   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?

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

   www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalene-laundry

   See all results for this question

   How many Magdalene laundries were there?

   • They received two years of shelter and training, after which they were discharged to find employment as servants. By the end of the 19th century, there were more than 300 Magdalene laundries in Britain and more than 40 in Ireland, with at least 19 in the Dublin area and 5 in Belfast.

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

   www.britannica.com/topic/Magdalene-laundry

   See all results for this question

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

    www.britannica.com › topic › Magdalene-laundry

    • Cached

    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.