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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 ...
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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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 ...
Oct 4, 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.
3 days ago · On October 25, 1996, a dark chapter in Ireland’s history finally came to an end with the closure of the nation’s last Magdalene laundry in Dublin’s Sean McDermott Street.
Oct 5, 2021 · The unmarried mother of four spent 25 years in the Sisters of the Good Shepherd laundry in Londonderry until her death there in 1981. Her children – three boys and girl – were taken from her ...
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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 ...
