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     • But the cemetery at Donnybrook was no ordinary resting place: It was a mass grave.
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   Why did the Magdalene have a mass grave at Donnybrook?

   • Unwed mothers, flirtatious women and others deemed unfit for society were forced to labor under the strict supervision of nuns for months or years, sometimes even for life. When the mass grave at Donnybrook was discovered, the 155 unmarked tombs touched off a scandal that exposed the extent and horrors of the Magdalene laundries.

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   How did the Magdalene women die?

   • The indifference to their death was not accidental. Their total erasure was complete. On the first day at a Magdalene laundry, women and girls had their possessions, names and hair taken. In the days and weeks that followed, everything else was stripped from them.

   States of denial: Magdalene Laundries in twentieth-century Ireland

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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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   Who were the victims of Magdalene Laundries?

   • Magdalene laundry victims burial plot A burial plot for victims of the Magdalene laundries in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. The plot commemorates 155 women who had worked in a convent laundry and who had been buried in a mass grave on the convent's property.

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   How old were women at Magdalene?

   • The runways into the laundries were numerous and diverse. So, maybe it should come as no surprise that women as old as 89 and girls as young as nine, were recorded as being received into these institutions. Entering a Magdalene institution as a penitent was like crossing the river Styx and descending into the underworld of Irish life.

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   Who were the fallen women in Magdalene?

   • In the late 18th century, the term "fallen women" primarily referred to sex workers, [ 11 ] but by the end of the 19th century, Magdalene laundries were filled with many different kinds of women, including girls who were "not prostitutes at all," but "seduced women." [ 12 ]

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   The Sisters arranged to have the remains cremated and reburied in a mass grave at Glasnevin Cemetery, splitting the cost of the reburial with the developer who had bought the land.

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

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   1 day ago · Efforts by Catherine Corless, a historian, led to the discovery in 2017 of a mass grave, thought to contain the remains of nearly 800 children, at the site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home ...

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   In 1993 a scandal erupted when a mass grave of 155 women was exhumed on the property of a convent in Dublin that had run a laundry. The ensuing outrage brought attention to the conditions and history of the laundries and spawned a battle for restorative justice for the surviving women of the laundries.

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   Jan 9, 2024 · The women interviewed knew they too could be condemned to die in the Magdalene laundry; anonymous, their own name long since lost, their connection to their former life obliterated, and ultimately buried in an unmarked or mass grave.

8. www.irishcentral.com › roots › historyIreland's last Magdalene Laundry closed on Oct 25, 1996

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   Oct 25, 2024 · It was only in 1993 when the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity in Dublin sold part of their convent to a property developer that the truth of the abuse and horror of these Catholic institutions was,...

9. theconversation.com › small-things-like-theseSmall Things Like These: Magdalene laundries drama is a ...

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   1 day ago · Melodramas like The Magdalene Sisters and that other notable Magdalene story, Philomena (2013), find a form of closure when their victims confront their oppressors.