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Sep 30, 2012 · 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...
Sep 23, 2014 · From there, still a child, she was passed into the network of Magdalene laundries and forced to work from eight to six every day except Sundays and bank holidays.
Aug 27, 2023 · When an unmarked mass grave containing 155 bodies was found in convent grounds at one of the laundries in 1993, the scandal could no longer be buried. It still took a further three years for the last Magdalene Laundry to close, in 1996.
- Adrian Lobb
Jan 9, 2024 · On the first day at a Magdalene Laundry, women and girls who had been sent there had their hair cut off, their names replaced, and their possessions taken. In the days and weeks that followed, everything else was stripped from them.
- What Were The Magdalene Laundries?
- How Many Women and Girls Were Confined in The Laundries?
- How Were Women and Girls Confined in The Laundries?
- What Were Conditions Like in These Institutions?
- Where Are The Survivors Today?
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 ran, commercial and for-profit businesses ...
The ‘official’ figure of 10,000 women and girls who were confined in the laundries is is a significant under-estimate by the Report of the Inter–Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries (also known as the McAleese Report, after Senator Martin McAleese who chaired the committee). The Sisters of M...
Women and girls were confined in the Magdalene Laundries through a variety of channels, including: women and girls sent by the judicial system (including those committed informally or as a condition of probation, those held on remand, sent to the Laundries after release from Prison sentences and those sent to the Laundries instead of Reformatory Sc...
Once inside the convents, girls and women were imprisoned behind locked doors, barred or unreachable windows and high walls (oftentimes with broken glass cemented at the apex). They were usually given no information as to when or whether they would be released. Upon entry, their names were often changed and they were given an identification number....
In JFMR’s experience, Magdalene survivors (and their family members) fall into five main categories: firstly, those who have spoken out and demanded justice; secondly, those who continue to live in silence; thirdly, women who are still living in institutional settings under the control of religious orders; fourthly, those who died both inside and o...
Jul 21, 2017 · For nearly 100 years single women who became pregnant, women who weren’t wanted, were banished, by their families, to the Mary Magdalene Home Laundry in Galway City. It was one of many such ...
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Oct 5, 2002 · Sarah was in Donnybrook two years when a nun told her she was being sent to the Irish Sisters of Charity Magdalene laundry in Cork. It was separate from the Good Shepherd laundry.
