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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 ...
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.
Aug 28, 2023 · In 2014, horror ensued when it was claimed that a mass grave of around 800 babies had been found, with it being alleged that bodies had been discovered in an old septic tank in County Galway,...
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Aug 31, 2023 · An estimated 30,000 women are believed to have been imprisoned in Irish laundries during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the last laundry – in Waterford, in the south-east – closed only in...
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Aug 25, 2023 · Set in the fictional town of Kilkinure in western Ireland, the BBC drama captures the story of an unmarried mother who was formerly detained in a Magdalene Laundry.
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Sep 23, 2016 · Magdalene Laundries: 20 years since the last laundry closed in Ireland, five survivors tell their heartbreaking stories. The last Magdalene Laundry to close in Ireland was this the above on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin, run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. (Photo: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie)
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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...
