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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, usually by the Catholic Church.
Mar 12, 2018 · Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times/Redux. When the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity decided to sell some land they owned in Dublin, Ireland, to pay their debts in 1992, the nuns followed the ...
Dublin between 1858 and 1984. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge had applied for an exhumation order in order to facilitate the sale and development of the ground in which the women had been anony mously buried. Magdalen laundries had been a largely unacknowledged part of Ireland's recent history, until this story and several others which
The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they were operated by various orders of the Catholic Church until the last laundry closed in 1996.
Kovesi, Pitch Your Tents on Distant Shores: A History of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Tahiti (Playwright Publishing, Caringbah, 2006, 2nd ed, 2010); Anon, Abbotsford Centenary 1863-1963 (Collingwood, 1963), ‘The Abbotsford convent and the Magdalen asylum’, Kilmore Free Press 13/10/1881, http ...
- James Franklin
What were the Magdalene Laundries? From the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 until 1996, at least 10,000 (see below) girls and women were imprisoned, forced to carry out unpaid labour and subjected to severe psychological and physical maltreatment in Ireland’s Magdalene Institutions. These were carceral, punitive institutions that ...
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The Magdalene Laundries are a prominent part of Irish social history, forming an “architecture of containment” (Smith, 2007), which enabled the Irish State to incarcerate children and women ...
