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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 › 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 bribe...

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

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   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.

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

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   The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [1] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland.

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   Jun 22, 2017 · A life unlived: 35 years of slavery in a Magdalene Laundry “When we were just two weeks old, Margaret was sent back to work,” Samantha says today, five years after first sharing her story...

6. jfmresearch.com › about-the-magdalene-laundriesAbout the Magdalene Laundries - Justice for Magdalenes Research

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   What were the Magdalene Laundries? 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.

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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 were the Magdalene Laundries?

   • 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.

   About the Magdalene Laundries - Justice for Magdalenes Research

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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.

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   What were the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland?

   • The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, [ 1 ] which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house " fallen women ", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland.

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

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   Aug 30, 2020 · When Gaffney was in her early 20s, the Daughters of Charity sent her and a few other young women on a train to Cork. They were picked up at the station by a different order of nuns, the Sisters...