Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalene laundries (named after the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene), were initially Protestant but later mostly Roman...
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The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, which operated from the 18th...
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The Ulster Magdalene Asylum was founded in 1839 at Donegall Pass, Belfast (now in Northern Ireland), by the Church of Ireland. It cared for "fallen women"...
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The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known...
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Magdalene asylum or Magdalene Laundries, Catholic institutions for “fallen women” Magdalene (comics), a Marvel Comics character Magdalene (sculpture)...
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girls and girls dressed "immorally." In Glasgow, the Magdalene Asylum evolved into the Magdalene Institution with a new Glasgow System created to deal...
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1932 – 31 May 2017) was a young woman in Ireland who was sent to a Magdalene asylum, where her name was changed and she was imprisoned until removed by...
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Thornton, are sent to investigate an alleged miracle reported at a Magdalene Asylum run by an order of nuns. However, the priests soon discover something...
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Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled...
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Urania Cottage (category Magdalene asylums)
Urania Cottage was a Magdalene asylum, in the terminology of the time, hostel or women's shelter, founded in London in 1847 by the novelist Charles Dickens...
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documentary interviews four women, three of whom were incarcerated in Magdalene asylums in Ireland: Brigid Young is the only one of the four women interviewed...
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screenwriting with the controversial film The Magdalene Sisters, based on life in an Irish Magdalene asylum. He won a Golden Lion at 59th Venice International...
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Magdalen Society of Philadelphia (redirect from Magdalene Society of Philadelphia)
Magdalen hospitals in England and Ireland, which were named for Mary Magdalene. Similar organizations were soon started in other American cities in the...
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he had illegally and covertly transferred children from mothers in Magdalene asylums to childless couples. Éamon was the third child of Sinéad (née Flanagan)...
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a teenager by her employer's son, and her family sends her to the Magdalene asylum. Desperate to escape, she steals her brother Eamonn's (Tony Curran)...
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of Charity were one of four Catholic organisations that ran Magdalene laundries (or asylums) in Ireland. These institutions operated from the 18th to the...
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Street, 1925). Women as theological figures Women in Christianity Magdalene asylum Genealogy of Jesus: Tamar, Rahab, and Bathsheba Quoted in Stevens,...
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provided education for "girls of respectable Protestant parents", and the Magdalene Asylum on Lower Leeson St aided "Protestant women after a first fall" and...
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for return of mother's body – buried in mass grave after 27 years in Magdalene asylum". mirror.co.uk. 16 July 2015. Retrieved 18 November 2020. "Eileen Flynn:...
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Santa Caterina d'Alessandria, Padua (category Magdalene asylums)
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria is a small, Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church and convent located on via Cesare Battisti #245 in the city of Padua in the...
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Dublin Female Penitentiary (category Magdalene asylums)
Episcopal Chapel and Asylum for Penitent Females, Baggot Street, Dublin Magdalen Asylum (Denny House) Leeson Street, Dublin Magdalene Asylum in Cork (Sawmill...
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legislatures. Tuam workhouse becomes the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, a Magdalene asylum. 6 March – establishment of An Gúm as part of the Department of Education...
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Madonna del Baraccano, Bologna (category Magdalene asylums)
The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Baraccano is a Renaissance style, Roman Catholic church, located at Piazza del Baraccano 2 at the southern edge of the...
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Episcopal Chapel and Asylum for Penitent Females, was Protestant "Magdalene" asylum for "fallen women" and an Episcopal Chapel on Upper Baggot Street in...
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Ulster Female Penitentiary (category Magdalene asylums)
Haypark Residential Home. The home closed in 1926. Magdalene laundries in Ireland Ulster Magdalene Asylum Bethany Home Dublin Female Penitentiary Magdalen...
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Magdalene is a Roman Catholic church building in Valletta, Malta. The church, named after Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene, was part of the Magdalene asylum...
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Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi (category Magdalene asylums)
Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi is a Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church and a former convent located in Borgo Pinti in central Florence, Italy. The...
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and the consequent exhumation of at least 133 former residents of a Magdalene asylum from unmarked graves brought the existence of these institutions to...
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