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1. www.thejournal.ie › magdalene-laundry-true-storyA life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry

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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...

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

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   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.

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

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   The Sean McDermott Street Magdalen laundry closed in 1996, the last of the laundries in Ireland. Today, Jenny says: “I hate all nuns. They rile me up. But the convent isn’t all my life, and it ...

4. churchandstate.org.uk › 2012 › 10Ireland’s Disappeared: The Magdalenes - churchandstate.org.uk

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   For years, it was Ireland's hidden scandal: an estimated 30,000 women were sent to church-run laundries, where they were abused and worked for years with no pay.

5. www.bbc.com › news › magazine-29307705Demanding justice for women and children abused by Irish nuns

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   Sep 23, 2014 · 24 September 2014. Frances Finnegan Congrave Press. By Sue Lloyd Roberts. BBC News, Ireland. An inquiry last year into Ireland's Magdalene laundries, where for decades thousands of women were...

6. www.economist.com › culture › 2024/11/01Exposing the horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

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   1 day ago · Women who were sent to a Magdalene asylum in the 20th century—often by their families—may have had sex out of wedlock; others had come forward with claims of incest or rape.

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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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   Why were women sent to Magdalene Laundries?

   • And in their obedient state, if this system worked as it should, it was hoped that women sent to a Magdalene laundry would live out their years there, ‘hidden and buried from the world’ (Sr Mary, 1939: 139). Magdalene laundries were not simply about the deprivation of liberty, or an act of retribution, a la the prison.

   States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland

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   Are nuns being abused in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries?

   • 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. But those who experienced life inside laundry walls angrily reject this, and are insisting that the nuns be held accountable. "Oh my God! You know what?

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   What happened to the Magdalene laundry?

   • After 1922, the Magdalene Laundries were operated by four religious orders (The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Charity, and the Good Shepherd Sisters) in ten different locations around Ireland (click here for a map). The last Magdalene Laundry ceased operating on 25 th October, 1996.

   About the Magdalene Laundries - Justice for Magdalenes Research

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   How many women were confined in the Magdalen laundries?

   • 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).

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   How did the Magdalene Laundries affect Ireland?

   • The Magdalene laundries tell us how Ireland reacted to the unwelcome realisation that the faultless Catholic nation was impossible. The messy reality of an imperfect, mortal society had to be eradicated. It was not simply that women and girls were locked away, warehoused and exploited through labour in Magdalene laundries.

   States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland

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   Their hair was cut and their clothes were taken away and replaced with a drab uniform. A rule of silence was imposed at almost all times in Magdalene Laundries and, in many women’s experiences, friendships were forbidden.