magdalene laundries?

Question

Can anyone suggest a website i can go on with pictures and first hand accounts of what it was like in the magdalene laundries in Ireland, or know of any books i can get ( im in the UK ). Many thanks

Answer 1

There is this film
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/

This book which is really, really good and I got the paperback from Tescos for about £3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dont-Ever-Tell-Childhood-Destroyed/dp/1845961463/ref=pd_sim_b_4/202-0975358-7125427

And these sites
http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_Asylum

http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/nov2000.html

Answer 2

Hi, Dont know of any books as such but there was a film released in the past few years called "The Magdalen Sisters". Quite graphic if you havent seen it. I am sure you will have access to other sources from there. If you cant get the film in the UK, email me at [e-mail] and I will get one for you. PS thats Letter "o" between the y and the 8 - as opposed to a zero.

Answer 3

Have you seen the movie, "The Magdalene Sisters" ? It is a very moving film about the laundries. The last one In Ireland closed down in the 90's .The American d.v.d included a documentary featuring women , who actually worked in them.I am a Catholic but the Laundries are another blight on the history of the church. I don't know if the church ever apologized to the women , who suffered horribly in them. Definitely watch the movie, it is heartbreaking !!!

Answer 4

Most of the other answerers have given excellent answers, so I won't repeat what they have said.

However, you might like to visit a former Magdalen laundry, and there is one in Limerick, the old Good Shepherd Convent. It's now part of a college, and the old church is used as an exhibition space.

Answer 5

right here is one laundry that closed in 1994. The award-triumphing action picture The Magdalene Sisters, that's launched on video next Friday, has for the 1st time presented an in intensity account of the brutal regime suffered with the aid of Irish women working interior the Magdalene laundries. Mary Norris replaced into one in all them. Taken faraway from her 'wrong' mom (who replaced into having a dating with a community farmer) while she replaced into 12, Mary later spent 2 years at a laundry run with the aid of the forged Shepherd Order in Cork, which in undemanding terms closed down in 1994. She says: "those places have been the Irish gulags for women. once you went interior their doors you left in the back of your dignity, identity and humanity. We have been locked up, had no outdoors contacts and have been given no wages regardless of the actuality that we worked 10 hours an afternoon, six days a week, fifty two weeks a 300 and sixty 5 days. What else is that yet slavery? And to think of that they have been doing all this interior the call of a loving God! I used to inform God I hated him. Magdalen Asylums have been properties for "fallen" women, maximum of them operated with the aid of distinctive orders of the Roman Catholic Church. it somewhat is been expected that 30,000 women have been admitted for the period of the 150-3 hundred and sixty 5 days history of those institutions, often against their will. The final Magdalen Asylum in eire closed on September 25, 1996.

Answer 6

I'd recommend the books: Do Penance or Perish by Frances Finnigan and The Magdalen Manuscript by Tom Kenyon.
Also the website http://www.netreach.net/~steed/magdalen.html

Answer 7

the book was good and the vidio i got was being sold cheap in a blocbuster vidio rentals they were selling them for £2.00 if you go into a store and ask them if they could order you one,it was on the telly a couple of weeks ago it doesn't show you all,iff it comes on again i will let yahoo answers know.

Answer 8

hi , id have to agree with what Orla C said, she is spot on and there would be no point in me repeating either, yes the good shepherd convent was probably the last to close down.

Answer 9

Just one more example of the Catholic church's hatred of women, oppression of women and repression of women. How could any rational woman take part in this misogynistic and outdated religious organization! I could not.

Answer 10

Try this site to get you started.

http://www.netreach.net/~steed/magdalen.html