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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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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...
Aug 23, 2023 · Many of the obituaries published following O'Connor's death last month noted the time she spent as a young woman in Dublin's An Grianan Training Centre, a Catholic-run institution which used to...
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The Magdalene Names Project began in 2003 and at its inception it involved photographing the Magdalene graves and recording the names of those who died in the laundries so that they could be honoured and remembered. After the Magdalene graves are photographed, the names are inputted manually into databases using photographs taken at the grave sites...
The online digitisationof the 1901 and 1911 censuses by the National Archives of Ireland opened up new possibilities for the Names Project and simplified the creation of databases. The digitised census data also made the process of locating the Magdalene Laundries in the census archives less challenging. Ironically, searching for the ‘occupation’ o...
Using a similar methodology, we are currently examining electoral registers containing the names of women who were registered to vote while confined in a Magdalene Laundry. When copies of the registers are obtained, the names are inputted into a database and sorted into alphabetical order. In the registers examined by JFMR to-date where the names o...
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 institutions in Ireland.
Aug 27, 2023 · The Magdalene laundries, named for Mary Magdalene, soon became places that parents sent their daughters in order to hide out-of-wedlock pregnancies – as is the case with Lorna in The Woman in...
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Jan 9, 2024 · The new conceived wisdom is to describe Magdalene Laundries as places of containment and confinement, as tantamount to prisons. This paper suggests that Magdalene Laundries were far worse than the prison.
