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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • Bachelorette party Call girl Cuckoldry Fallen woman Female sexuality Magdalene asylum New Woman Non-monogamy Nymphomania (defined at Wiktionary) Polyamory...
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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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    Anti-psychiatry Child abuse Canadian Indian residential school system Magdalene asylum Religious abuse Project MKUltra Crimes against humanity CTV.ca News...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    mostly considered as the work of women of low social status. The Magdalene asylums chose laundering as a suitable occupation for the "fallen women" they...
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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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    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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    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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    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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