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     Exposing the horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

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     Cillian Murphy returns to the big screen in Irish Magdalene laundry drama

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     ‘These institutions operated in Northern Ireland but the truth of mother and baby homes is a global story’

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     Eileen Walsh on Small Things Like These: ‘In any religion, it’s the women who’ll be controlled’

     It was one of the largest of its kind in Ireland; more than 900 infants died there. These mother and baby homes, also known as Magdalene laundries, were the setting for two centuries of systematic abuse in Ireland. As a punishment for having children ...

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     Small Things Like These: Magdalene laundries drama is a powerful rumination on compassion – and its limits

     History films work in various ways. One is to comfort the viewer that such a time is consigned to the past. Melodramas like The Magdalene Sisters and that other notable Magdalene story, Philomena (2013), find a form of closure when their victims confront their oppressors.

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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 ...

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   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 ...

5. www.bbc.com › news › articlesCillian Murphy film a 'complex tale' of a different Ireland - BBC

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   The film is based on Claire Keegan’s 2021 Booker-shortlisted story and tells the story of a Wexford man, coal merchant Bill Furlong, who uncovers a terrible scene at the local Magdalene Laundry

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   4 days ago · The Truth Recovery Independent Panel is working to uncover the untold history of Northern Ireland’s Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries, and Workhouses and the pathways and ...

7. www.independent.ie › irish-news › how-closure-of-theHow closure of the last Magdalene laundry 28 years ago ended ...

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   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.

8. metro.co.uk › 2023/08/28 › the-woman-in-the-wallReal story behind grave of 800 babies amid Magdalene ... - Metro

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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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   What was Magdalene laundry?

   • Magdalene laundry, an institution in which women and girls were made to perform unpaid laundry work, sewing, cleaning, and cooking as penitence for violating moral codes. Such institutions existed in Europe, North America, and Australia between the 18th and 20th centuries and were often overseen by religious groups.

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   What happened to Ireland's last Magdalene laundry?

   • Unmarried pregnant women were condemned as social outcasts and confined in harsh institutions 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.

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   Where did the Magdalene Laundries come from?

   • Such institutions existed in Europe, North America, and Australia between the 18th and 20th centuries and were often overseen by religious groups. The Magdalene laundries in Ireland, where they were largely run by Roman Catholic orders in conjunction with the Irish government, gained widespread notoriety that continued long after their closure.

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   How many times did the Magdalene laundry move?

   • The laundry moved several times in ensuing decades. In Ireland the first Magdalene laundry was founded in Dublin in 1765 by Lady Arabella Denny, a philanthropist. It was solely for young Protestant women who had worked as prostitutes or were destitute.

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   How many Magdalene laundries were there?

   • They received two years of shelter and training, after which they were discharged to find employment as servants. By the end of the 19th century, there were more than 300 Magdalene laundries in Britain and more than 40 in Ireland, with at least 19 in the Dublin area and 5 in Belfast.

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   Why did Magdalene Laundries become popular in Ireland?

   • The Magdalene laundries in Ireland, where they were largely run by Roman Catholic orders in conjunction with the Irish government, gained widespread notoriety that continued long after their closure. Institutions with the name “Magdalene” or “Magdalen” were founded with the idea of reforming so-called “fallen women.”

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    Magdalene laundry, an institution in which women and girls were made to perform unpaid laundry work, sewing, cleaning, and cooking as penitence for violating moral codes. Such institutions existed in Europe, North America, and Australia between the 18th and 20th centuries and were often overseen by.