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     • Samantha Long’s mother Margaret Bullen was placed in Gloucester Street (now Sean McDermott Street) Laundry c.1967 and died 35 years later, never having been released into society and her own home.
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     A life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry

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   When was Margaret sent to the Magdalene laundry?

   • At roughly the age of 16, Margaret was sent to the Magdalene Laundry at Gloucester Street. The exact time and circumstances of her move there are not clear because Samantha and her sister are still waiting on full records to be supplied to them on their mother’s past.

   A life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry - TheJournal.ie

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   What will happen to the old Magdalene laundry?

   • The old Gloucester Street laundry, the last of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries to shut its doors, will soon be demolished and replaced by a budget hotel and a student residence — if the City Council has its way.

   A Blot on Ireland’s Past, Facing Demolition - The New York Times

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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.

   Magdalene laundry | Ireland, Survivors, & Facts | Britannica

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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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   What happened to the last Magdalene laundry in Ireland?

   • The back wall of the Gloucester Street laundry, the last of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries, which closed in 1996. Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times DUBLIN — The General Post Office in Dublin, center of the 1916 rebellion against British rule, is today a shrine to Irish freedom.

   A Blot on Ireland’s Past, Facing Demolition - The New York Times

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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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3. www.irishtimes.com › life-and-style › peopleThe last of the Magdalenes: 'The nuns took my childhood'

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   Jun 2, 2018 · For weeks Jenny had watched and noted, with a stubby pencil she found, the times the breadman called at the front door of the Magdalene laundry for his money. She used apples and oranges to...

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4. 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.

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

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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.

6. www.independent.ie › regionals › wexfordMargaret spent time in nuns' Wexford laundry – but has got no ...

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   Mar 12, 2013 · Margaret says it wasn't until November 26, 2012, when she received a letter from Minister Lynch's office stating that her correspondence had been 'brought to Minister Lynch's attention, who...

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

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   Mar 12, 2018 · The interior of the now derelict Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott St in Dublin’s north inner city on the day of The Irish Government apologized to the thousands of...

8. www.nytimes.com › magdalene-laundries-irelandA Blot on Ireland’s Past, Facing Demolition - The New York Times

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   Jan 15, 2018 · The old Gloucester Street laundry, the last of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries to shut its doors, will soon be demolished and replaced by a budget hotel and a student residence — if...