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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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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Small Things like These (film) (category Films set in Ireland)
international co-production between Ireland and Belgium, its plot focuses on the infamous Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Small Things like These had its...
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Sex in a Cold Climate is a 1998 Irish documentary film detailing the mistreatment of "fallen women" in the Magdalene laundries in Ireland. It was produced...
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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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parish of St Mary Magdalene, Donegall Pass, Belfast, and it celebrated its 175 anniversary in 2014. Magdalene laundries in Ireland Ulster Female Penitentiary...
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Mount Saint Canice (redirect from Mount Saint Canice Laundry Hobart Tasmania)
The Magdalene Laundry and was one of ten such laundries in operation throughout Australia. They were based on existing Magdalene laundries in Ireland. "The...
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Women's Protection Board (category Child abduction in Spain)
rape in Francoist Spain and the democratic transition Lost children of Francoism Magdalene Laundries in Ireland National Catholicism Prostitution in Spain...
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Magdalene Laundry closed on 25 September 1996. An apology was issued by the Irish government to the surviving residents of the laundries in 2013. In 2003...
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Small Things like These (category Novels set in Ireland)
suspect that their supposed training school for girls is, in fact, a cruelly abusive Magdalene laundry. First, he finds a group of deprived-looking young women...
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after leaving the institution on 8 April 1828. In Ireland, the Magdalene Asylums, or Magdalene Laundries, were usually run by Roman Catholic orders and...
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The Devil's Doorway (category Films set in Ireland)
angle, but the true stories surrounding Magdalene Laundries. I’ll be honest, I knew nothing of these Laundries prior to watching the film and am now horrified...
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From a Distance (category CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes))
Steven O'Riordan focusing on the human rights aspect of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. The 2011 single directed by O'Riordan had vocal participation from...
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stated in 2023 that the song was initially inspired by Magdalene laundries in Ireland, in which "fallen women" were effectively forced into slavery in religious...
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Bessborough Mother & Baby Home (category 2014 in the Republic of Ireland)
Vermont. Ireland portal Bethany Mother and Child Home Cavan Orphanage Fire St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home Magdalene Laundries in Ireland Bon Secours...
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Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home (category 2014 in the Republic of Ireland)
Home Cavan Orphanage Fire St Patrick's Mother and Baby Home Magdalene Laundries in Ireland 2021 Canadian Indian residential schools gravesite discoveries...
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Religious Sisters of Charity (redirect from Irish Sisters of Charity)
ran Magdalene laundries (or asylums) in Ireland. These institutions operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries to house "fallen women". In 1993...
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1734). 1809 in Scotland 1809 in Wales Godden, John (1999). "The Military Road". Retrieved 2012-08-02. "Magdalene Laundries". Best Irish Facts. Archived...
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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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Legitimacy (family law) (redirect from Legitimacy law in England and Wales)
2002 in Northern Ireland and May 2006 in Scotland, an unmarried father has parental responsibility if he is listed on the birth certificate. In the United...
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Maeve O'Rourke (category 21st-century Irish lawyers)
Committee that inquired into Magdalene Laundries. As of 2020, she lectures in Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights in NUIG. She is a member...
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Series 'The Woman In The Wall' Inspired By Ireland's Magdalene Laundries Scandal". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 3 August 2023. "The Woman in the Wall TV Show...
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The Forgotten Maggies (category All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English)
by Irish film maker Steven O'Riordan about the Magdalene laundries. It was launched at the Galway Film Fleadh 2009. It was screened on the Irish television...
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Sisters of Charity (section Irish Sisters)
Charity (or Irish Sisters of Charity), founded by Mary Aikenhead in 1815, were one of the orders involved in the controversial Magdalene laundries. M. Dunstan...
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Washerwoman (category Laundry occupations)
in various human cultures over thousands of years, the spread of washing machines and self-service laundries has rendered washerwomen unnecessary in much...
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Turbulent Indigo (redirect from The Magdalene Laundries)
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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Mary Norris (category Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals in Ireland)
Norris (née Cronin, 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...
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Ireland Republic of Ireland Nature reserves in Northern Ireland List of national parks of the Republic of Ireland Passage grave Provinces of Ireland Connacht...
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(1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 373. McCarthy, Rebecca Lea (2010). Origins of the Magdalene laundries: an analytical history...
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Ulster Female Penitentiary (category Magdalene asylums)
closed in 1926. Magdalene laundries in Ireland Ulster Magdalene Asylum Bethany Home Dublin Female Penitentiary Magdalen Homes Northern Ireland www.childrenshomes...
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