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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. Both institutions were run...
Jan 26, 2021 · A report has found that 10,500 women went through mother-and-baby homes in Northern Ireland and 3,000 were admitted into Magdalene laundries.
Oct 5, 2021 · What he was not told was that Brigid O’Connor was actually inside a Magdalene laundry just across the River Foyle from the children’s home where he was placed as a young child.
Oct 5, 2021 · Summary. In January an investigation was promised into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in NI after a report found more than 10,500 women and girls entered the homes between 1922...
Dec 31, 2021 · Indeed, the explicit situating of Magdalen Laundries within human rights frameworks by survivors, advocates, and activists (O’Donnell, O’Rourke & Smith, 2020) ensures sites of conscience may be the most suitable mechanism for addressing ongoing injustices within a memorializing framework.
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Jan 22, 2024 · Named for the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, who was traditionally considered to have been a fallen woman herself, they were described as laundries because the asylums were laundry and...
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Nov 30, 2021 · The protagonist, a coal and timber merchant named Bill Furlong, is himself the son of an unmarried Catholic mother who “had fallen pregnant” at 16 and avoided the torment of a Magdalene home...
