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  1. 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. Aug 30, 2020 · Her cousins gave Mary a photo of her mother, which she keeps now in her room, on the former laundry grounds. Gaffney faces ongoing uncertainty about where she will be living.

  3. 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 bouquet...

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  4. Oct 2, 2017 · In 1994 a song entitled “Magdalene Laundries” appeared in her new album and discussed the injustice experienced by the inmates. It is a good example how even the popular culture abroad was influenced by these terrifying discoveries.

  5. 1 day ago · Set in New Ross, Ireland, in 1985, it is a fictional tale, with the unsettling tension of a horror film. But it is based on reality: Magdalene laundries, in which “fallen women” were forced to ...

  6. Mar 12, 2018 · Inside were the bodies of scores of unknown women: the undocumented, uncared-about inmates of one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries. Their lives—and later their deaths—had been ...

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  8. Aug 23, 2023 · The Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager. A new BBC drama...

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