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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.
1 day ago · Cillian Murphy and Zara Devin in Small Things Like These. FlixPix/Alamy Stock Photo. Making a delivery to the local convent, he comes across a young woman, Sarah (Zara Devlin), locked in the coal ...
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.
- Erica Doyle Higgins
Jun 10, 2005 · Every week, Kathy O'Beirne remembers the women who lost their lives in Magdalene Laundries at a mass grave in Glasnevin Cemetery.
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...
- Deirdre Falvey
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. The Stormont-commissioned report examined the...
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Irish Magdalene Laundry, c. early 20th century. The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these ...
