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1. 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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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Magdalene_Laundries_in_IrelandMagdalene Laundries in Ireland - Wikipedia

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   It closed in 1994 and was "Ireland's longest serving Mother and Baby Home." [ 7 ] Ireland's Catholic-run Magdalene asylums survived the longest, through to 1996. Ireland's Magdalene laundries were quietly supported by the state, and operated by religious communities for more than two hundred years.

3. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-northern-ireland-58789117Mother-and-baby homes: 'Secrets have been shattered' - BBC

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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...

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4. www.britannica.com › topic › Magdalene-laundryMagdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

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   By the 1960s and ’70s, Magdalene laundries in most countries were closed down, sold off to commercial laundries, or reformed under a different mission. Are you a student? Get a special academic rate on Britannica Premium.

5. www.history.com › news › magdalene-laundry-irelandHow Ireland Turned 'Fallen Women' Into Slaves | HISTORY

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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.

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6. journals.sagepub.com › doi › fullStates of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century ...

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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.

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   What happened at Magdalene Laundries?

   • 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 the power of shame broken - by the testimonies of people who suffer trauma to this day. The last institution in Northern Ireland closed only in 1990.

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   How did women live in Magdalene Laundries?

   • Some women spent the rest of their lives in a laundry after being admitted. 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.

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   Why were Magdalene Laundries criminalised?

   • Magdalene laundries were places for all the women who did not fit in with Ireland's new virtuous social order. This is also why they were not simply criminalised, targeted with increasing harsh legislation.

   States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland

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   Why did they go to Magdalene laundry?

   • Whatever situation they had been in, the industrial school, the abusive home, on the edge of homelessness, they were often lured to Magdalene laundry on the pretence of something better. For that moment, they believed they were about to be liberated from their misfortune.

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   Why did Magdalene Laundries alienate women?

   • Magdalene laundries were not simply about the deprivation of liberty, or an act of retribution, a la the prison. If prisons aim to reform people so they may return to society, better citizens, Magdalene laundries alienated women from their lives and this world, to secure their citizenship in heaven.

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   Why did the nuns 'lofty mission' in Magdalene Laundries?

   • Putting these same Catholic techniques to work on the penitent women and girls before them, the nuns would teach them the rewards of surrender. If these women and girls were the fallen, the nuns were intent upon their ascension. In Magdalene laundries, the nuns’ ‘lofty mission’ was ‘to bring penitents to God’ (The Cork Examiner, 1927: 3).

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8. www.irishtimes.com › ireland › 2023/03/04Magdalene laundries survivor recalls a childhood of ...

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   Mar 4, 2023 · After an incident when she was 11 and stood up to a nun, she was moved to a convent laundry in Athlone and later, when she was 12, Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry (DLM).