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The book also focuses on the life of Mary's mother, Angela, who worked for 27 years until she died in a Magdalene laundry and was then put into a mass grave, while Angela's children were adopted or put into other institutions in Ireland.
Magdalene laundries were part of a vast network of church-and-state institutions in 20th-century Ireland that included mother-and-baby homes and industrial schools. The former were institutions where unwed pregnant women lived and worked until their babies were born.
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 · Were it not for the bravery of survivors, what happened in mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries would have largely remained hidden in history. But secrets have been shattered - and...
Sep 23, 2014 · An inquiry last year into Ireland's Magdalene laundries, where for decades thousands of women were forced to work by nuns, found no evidence that workers were abused.
Aug 15, 2021 · With a foreword by Marie Steed - born to an unmarried mother in 1960 at the Bessboro Mother and Baby Home in Blackrock, Cork - the book reveals the fundamental flaws in the state's recent...
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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 ...
