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    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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  • St Vincent’s Magdalene laundry was a laundry run by the Religious Sisters of Charity based in Cork. Beside St Vincent’s laundry is St Vincent’s secondary...
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  • teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families...
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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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  • supposed training school for girls is, in fact, a cruelly abusive Magdalene laundry. First, he finds a group of deprived-looking young women polishing...
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  • co-production between Ireland and Belgium, its plot focuses on the infamous Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Small Things Like These had its world premiere at the...
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  • Canada Magdalene asylum or Magdalene Laundries, Catholic institutions for “fallen women” Magdalene (comics), a Marvel Comics character Magdalene (sculpture)...
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    dramatic licenses to give the women of the Glasgow Magdalene Institution a voice. "A Magdalene laundry that was neither Irish nor Catholic, and novel it...
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  • Sex in a Cold Climate (category Laundry businesses)
    documentary film detailing the mistreatment of "fallen women" in the Magdalene laundries in Ireland. It was produced and directed by Steve Humphries and narrated...
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  • to a Magdalene laundry or asylum run by the Good Shepherd Order in Cork, Ireland, in 1949 at the age of 16. She spent two years there. The laundry closed...
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  • horrors of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, saying: "I had my son when I was 17, which was the year after the last Magdalene Laundry closed. People...
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    in the Wall, which focuses on the Irish Magdalene Laundries, played an unreleased O'Connor song, "The Magdalene Song". The song had been given to the series'...
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  • documentary made by Irish film maker Steven O'Riordan about the Magdalene laundries. It was launched at the Galway Film Fleadh 2009. It was screened...
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  • Mitchell also takes in non-personal issues, notably in the song "Magdalene Laundries", which recounts the sufferings of Irish women once consigned to...
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  • she was then sent to a psychiatric facility and finally placed in a Magdalene laundry at High Park Convent in Drumcondra, where she was again raped, giving...
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  • named the Ulster Magdalene Asylum and Episcopal Chapel (St Mary Magdalene Chapel). It was opened on 1 December 1839. While the laundry closed in 1916,...
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    as The Magdalene Laundry and was one of ten such laundries in operation throughout Australia. They were based on existing Magdalene laundries in Ireland...
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  • that stretches back to her time spent in Ireland’s controversial Magdalene laundries. Ruth Wilson as Lorna Brady Abby Fitz as Young Lorna Daryl McCormack...
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  • "The Magdalene Laundries", a song by Joni Mitchell "Magdalene (my regal zonophone)", a song by Procol Harum from the album Shine on Brightly "Magdalene",...
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    Ireland to investigate the Magdalene laundries. His findings have been criticised by some survivors and researchers from the Magdalene Names project. On 18–19...
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    State to the survivors of the Magdalene laundries. The government also told the estimated 800 to 1,000 surviving Magdalene women that a compensation scheme...
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  • outside marriage were severely stigmatized and often detained in Magdalene laundries. The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants...
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  • is an Irish Traveller survivor of Irish institutions such as the Magdalene laundries, industrial schools and county homes. Collins co-founded the campaign...
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    Europe and North America, where "fallen women", including unmarried mothers, were detained. Photo: Magdalene laundry in Ireland, ca. early 20th century....
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    Showtime Thriller Series 'The Woman In The Wall' Inspired By Ireland's Magdalene Laundries Scandal". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 17 August 2022. Ramachandran...
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    at the site of a Magdalene laundry, institutions used to house "fallen women", was discovered after the convent which ran the laundry sold the land to...
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  • Sisters of Charity were one of four Catholic organisations that ran Magdalene laundries (or asylums) in Ireland. These institutions operated from the 18th...
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  • Dublin by Lamplight (category Magdalene asylums)
    Lamplight Laundry, at 35 Ballsbridge Terrace, Ballsbridge, Dublin, was a Protestant-run Magdalene Laundry, founded in 1856, that like other such laundries housed...
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  • and North America, where "fallen women", including unmarried mothers, were detained. Photo: Magdalene laundry in Ireland, ca. early twentieth century....
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