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Yet oral testimonies show that for the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries, food was not always experienced in the same way as prisoners. Survivors did not experience food in isolation but as part of the wider ‘architecture of containment’ that had led to their admission to the Laundries.
Dec 31, 2021 · How—in what ways—should we remember what happened in the Magdalene Laundries? The resultant report provided both individual and collective responses to how survivors wished the institutions to be remembered.
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Oct 5, 2021 · Were it not for the bravery of survivors, what happened in mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries would have largely remained hidden in history. But secrets have been shattered - and the...
Feb 5, 2013 · Two survivors of Ireland's Magdalene laundries have spoken of their experiences. Marina Gambold was taken to a laundry aged 16 by a priest. She remembers being forced to eat off the floor....
Jun 6, 2012 · Today marks a year since a UN committee criticised the State’s failure to protect women and girls confined to Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Here a survivor of one institution shares her ...
Mar 3, 2022 · More than 12,000 women and girls worked in the Magdalene Laundries which operated in Ireland from 1922 to 1996 and were run by four religious orders. The tough-to-swallow documentary saw victims share graphic accounts of the horrors that unfolded behind closed doors.
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Jun 6, 2018 · Irish President Michael D Higgins has apologised to thousands of women forced to work in the country's Magdalene Laundries. Hundreds turned out in Dublin to welcome home the Magdalene survivors.
