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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: James M. Smith
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-01 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

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The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral f
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Claire McGettrick
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families
Do Penance Or Perish
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Frances Finnegan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Frances Finnegan traces the history of the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, homes founded in the 19th century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform, bu
Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Miriam Haughton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-23 - Publisher: Manchester University Press

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This collection raises incisive questions about the links between the postcolonial carceral system, which thrived in Ireland after 1922, and larger questions of
Suffer the Little Children
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mary Raftery
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-06 - Publisher: Burns & Oates

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Up until the late sixties in Ireland, thousands of young children were sent to what were called industrial schools, financed by the Department of Education, and