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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 are...

2. www.irishtimes.com › life-and-style › health-familyMary’s story: The Magdalene laundry survivor who still lives ...

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   Aug 30, 2020 · In 2013, when the McAleese report – the result of an inquiry overseen by then senator Martin McAleese into State involvement in Magdalene laundries – was published, there were at least 58 ...

3. 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.

4. 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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5. www.irishtimes.com › life-and-style › peopleMagdalene survivor: ‘I was raped by a priest. I want to tell ...

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   Sep 27, 2019 · Last year, Mary was in Áras An Uachtaráin when President Michael D Higgins apologised to the Magdalene survivors on behalf of the State. Mary used to do the laundry for the Áras.

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

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   Sep 23, 2014 · Researchers from the Magdalene Names Project told us that according to their research into a 10-year period (1954 to 1964) at the High Park Laundry, most women were there for at least eight...

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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.

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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.

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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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   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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   Why did the Magdalene Laundries need public money?

   • Instead public money went to the orders to maintain them within institutions. When in around the 1970s the Magdalene laundries struggled to remain economically viable, the religious congregations requested that the State fund them to keep ageing women and women with disabilities in the institutions.

   Mary’s story: The Magdalene laundry survivor who still lives there

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   Why did Magdalene laundry pay 45 women a week?

   • In a letter to the Department of Health in the 1970s, the sister in charge of another Magdalene Laundry in Dublin said that the local health board was paying per week “in respect of 45 unemployable and mentally handicapped women”.

   Mary’s story: The Magdalene laundry survivor who still lives there

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   May 29, 2015 · A NEW book documents the harrowing journeys faced by five women who were incarcerated in Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries - where they endured unthinkable abuse but lived to tell the tale. Launched in Britain and Ireland today, Whispering Hope sees Nancy Costello, Kathleen Legg, Diane Croghan, Marie Slattery and Marina Gombold put ...