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  1. Apr 5, 2006 · An airing of the Scottish film 'The Magdalene Sisters' on SBS. Broadcast on the 5th of April 2006. ... Live Music Archive Librivox Free Audio. Featured. All Audio ...

  2. Aug 30, 2002 · RM 2WR8W5N – The Raising of Lazarus, Christ raises Lazarus to life who rises from his grave. His sisters Mary and Mary Magdalene stand to the right of Christ and watch together with a large number of bystanders. Two men lift the lid of a sarcophagus. This bears the signature of Hans Bol and the date 1580.

  3. Box office. $21.1 million [1] The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders ...

  4. Irish Magdalene Laundry, c. early 20th century. 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 ...

  5. Jun 10, 2005 · Her baby lived for ten years. 'Katy's Story' is the first book from a survivor of the Magdalene. Kathy O'Beirne says she wrote the book to tell her own story and the story of thousands of women ...

  6. This is the century-spanning scandal of Ireland’s Disappeared. An open secret in Ireland, audiences in the United States were shocked to learn of it from Peter Mullan’s searing 2002 film, The Magdalene Sisters (reviewed in these pages). Which is only the beginning of the story. The Irish Times confirms the extent of the laundries ...

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  8. Aug 29, 2003 · Overview. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum. Peter Mullan. Full Cast & Crew.