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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. facts.net › 38-facts-about-magdalene-laundries38 Facts About Magdalene Laundries

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   Sep 23, 2024 · Magdalene Laundries were institutions run by Catholic orders in Ireland, where women and girls were sent to work, often under harsh conditions. These laundries operated from the 18th to the late 20th century. The women, known as "Maggies," were typically unwed mothers, orphans, or those deemed "fallen" by society.

3. 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. How do we make sense of this carceral regime?

4. 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...

5. www.metrotimes.com › arts › the-magdalene-sistersThe Magdalene Sisters - Detroit Metro Times

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   Aug 27, 2003 · The girls are in Irish-Catholic prison for varying offenses: Margaret (Anne-Marie Duff) was raped by her cousin; Rose (Dorothy Duffy) had a baby out of wedlock; and Bernadette (Nora-Jane Noone)...

6. www.bishop-accountability.org › 2017 › 06“Nobody told us she had died” – the story of Margaret Bullen ...

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   “When we were just two weeks old, Margaret was sent back to work,” Samantha says today, five years after first sharing her story with TheJournal.ie. Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article.

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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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   Who ran the Magdalene laundry?

   • Nearly all of the Magdalene Laundries in the U.S. were run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, a Roman Catholic order that was founded in France in 1835 with a mission of “binding themselves to the labor for the conversion of fallen women and girls needing refuge from the temptations of the world.” The order spread rapidly.

   What About the ‘Lost Children’ (and Mothers) of America?

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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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   When did the Magdalene laundry close?

   • By 1900, there were at least 38 such institutions in the U.S. Our research suggests that most of the Magdalene Laundries closed by the 1960s, victims of the automated washing machine. A former Magdalene Laundry in Buffalo, N.Y., run by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, was in operation as early as the 1880s.

   What About the ‘Lost Children’ (and Mothers) of America?

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   Are Magdalene laundries the original women's prisons?

   • For the past four years, incarcerated scholars at the Indiana Women’s Prison, ourselves included, have researched Magdalene Laundries, which had a profound impact on women and girls of all faiths in the U.S. for more than a century. We believe these institutions were the original women’s prisons in the United States.

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   Did Magdalene Laundries exist in America?

   • What the Times article missed is the story closer to home: Magdalene Laundries existed in the U.S. nearly as long as they did in Ireland. They were at least as numerous in this country and just as brutal.

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   Nov 3, 2017 · Within six years, Sisters of the Good Shepherd founded their first Magdalene Laundry in England. A year later, five sisters traveled from the Motherhouse in Angers, France, to found the first House of the Good Shepherd in Louisville, Kentucky.