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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.
- Graves Research
- 1901/1911 Census Data
- Electoral Registers
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. After the Magdalene graves are photographed, the names are inputted manually into databases using photographs taken at the grave sites...
The online digitisationof the 1901 and 1911 censuses by the National Archives of Ireland opened up new possibilities for the Names Project and simplified the creation of databases. The digitised census data also made the process of locating the Magdalene Laundries in the census archives less challenging. Ironically, searching for the ‘occupation’ o...
Using a similar methodology, we are currently examining electoral registers containing the names of women who were registered to vote while confined in a Magdalene Laundry. When copies of the registers are obtained, the names are inputted into a database and sorted into alphabetical order. In the registers examined by JFMR to-date where the names o...
Nov 3, 2017 · The mother and baby homes were closely related to and preceded by Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries, Catholic institutions that enslaved thousands of “fallen” women during the 19th and 20th centuries.
May 29, 2015 · A NEW book documents the harrowing journeys faced by five women who were incarcerated in Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries - where they endured unthinkable abuse but lived to tell the tale.
Oct 2, 2017 · Let’s not forget the Scottish and English Magdalene Establishments. 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.
Jan 9, 2024 · The new conceived wisdom is to describe Magdalene Laundries as places of containment and confinement, as tantamount to prisons. This paper suggests that Magdalene Laundries were far worse than the prison.
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Sep 23, 2016 · THIS weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. On September 25 1996, Ireland's final laundry, which was located on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin and run by the Sisters of Our Lady, closed its doors for good.
