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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.
By the end of the 19th century, there were more than 300 Magdalene laundries in Britain and more than 40 in Ireland, with at least 19 in the Dublin area and 5 in Belfast. Similar institutions were founded in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States.
Mar 12, 2018 · Inside were the bodies of scores of unknown women: the undocumented, uncared-about inmates of one of Ireland’s notorious Magdalene laundries. Their lives—and later their deaths—had been ...
Feb 5, 2013 · About 10,000 women passed through the laundries in the Irish Republic between 1922 and 1996, a report has revealed. Marina Gambold was orphaned when she was eight years old after both her...
The latest Justice For Magdalenes Research (JFMR ) figures reveal that 1,663 women died in the Catholic Church run institutions. This total is almost double the figure cited in the McAleese...
Oct 5, 2021 · Thousands of women and girls entered the institutions in Northern Ireland over a 68-year period. By Chris Page. BBC News Ireland Correspondent. Were it not for the bravery of survivors, what...
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.
