• 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 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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    Brendan Met Trudy (2000), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Pure Mule (2005), Eden (2008), The End (2008), Catastrophe (2015), The Children Act (2017), Maze...
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    Anne-Marie Duff (category Alumni of the Drama Centre London)
    Duff has had roles in Enigma (2001), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Notes on a Scandal (2006), French Film (2008), The Last Station (2009) and Nowhere Boy...
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    Peter Mullan (category Alumni of the University of Glasgow)
    for his direction of The Magdalene Sisters (2002). Mullan was born on 2 November 1959 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Patricia (a nurse)...
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    role film The Magdalene Sisters (2002), and has since been nominated three times at the IFTA Film & Drama Awards for her work in 3 films: The Descent (2005)...
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  • as a source for the 2002 film, The Magdalene Sisters. The film was produced by Testimony Films and aired on Channel 4 in March 1998. The documentary interviews...
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  • performance as Rose / Patricia in The Magdalene Sisters. Coyle, Jane (14 February 2014). "Review: Molly Sweeney". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 September...
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  • alongside his brother Ciarán Owens) St. Patrick: The Irish Legend (2000) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Boys from County Clare (2003) Dead Bodies (2003)...
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    Bethany with Mary Magdalene and the sinful woman of Luke 7 (Luke 7:36–50). This influenced the Roman Rite liturgy of the feast of Mary Magdalene, with a Gospel...
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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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  • Eady, the first woman murdered in the film by Richard Attenborough's John Christie, Leo the Last (1970), I Don't Want to Be Born (1975), The Magdalene Sisters...
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    in The Magdalene Sisters, Lord Ruthven in Mary Queen of Scots and Father Angelo in the 2006 Doctor Who episode "Tooth and Claw". He played the Guide in...
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  • played the demented witch Mortianna in the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). In Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters, (2002), she played the role...
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    2011. The village streetscape was featured in the 2002 Peter Mullan film The Magdalene Sisters. In 2004, The Times described the village as one of the 'coolest'...
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    none of the canonical Gospels identifies Jesus's sisters by name (Mark 6:3, Matthew 13:56), one of his sisters is identified as "Mary" in the Gospel of...
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    Theatre (1994). In July 2011, Helen Masters returned to the stage to play the role of Lady Magdalene Danvers in Into Thy Hands, a new play written and directed...
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  • Collegeville, Minnesota), a psychotherapist and the author of six books about Catholicism, clerical sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and clerical celibacy...
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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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  • Craig Armstrong (composer) (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    the worldwide ensemble comedy smash Love Actually. His scores can also be heard in The Magdalene Sisters, Kiss of the Dragon, The Bone Collector, The...
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  • known for his role as Brendan in the film The Magdalene Sisters. He has also appeared in the film The Boxer, the TV Drama The Clinic and Fifty Dead Men Walking...
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  • River City (BBC) Taggart (ITV), Camera Café, Fair City (RTE) and The Magdalene Sisters (MIRAMAX) by Peter Mullen in which she played Sr. Jude. Healy is...
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  • McCole is a Scottish actor. He is best known for starring in the dark comedy series High Times, the American comedy Rushmore, and for his former role in BBC...
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  • the first full-length film directed by Mullan, who later won a Best Actor award at Cannes for My Name is Joe, and who went on to direct The Magdalene...
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  • to be screened as In Competition for this section: Golden Lion: The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan Grand Special Jury Prize: House of Fools by Andrei...
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  • The Golden Lion (Italian: Leone d'oro) is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing...
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  • by Roman Polanski, Poland Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): The Magdalene Sisters, directed by Peter Mullan, U.K. / Ireland Golden Bear (Berlin Film...
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    have the term Sisters of Charity in their name. Some Sisters of Charity communities refer to the Vincentian tradition alone, or in America to the tradition...
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  • creating the film's 1954 setting. James Croot of The Press gave the film a positive review, describing it as a "Kiwi cross between The Magdalene Sisters and...
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