The fallen : the Magdalene Laundries and Ireland's legacy of silence

Brangan, Louise2026

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Following independence in 1922, Ireland began to chase a dream: to become the perfect Catholic nation. But purity had a price. The women and girls who did not conform - the wayward, the poor, the disabled, the abused - were purged from the streets. The Magdalene Laundries represented the deep end of this regime of social control. Thousands were sent to these institutions; each was perceived to have fallen in some way. Once locked inside, their hair was shorn off, their names were erased and they were put to work. They washed, they scrubbed and they prayed, labouring in often indefinite captivity in an attempt to salvage their souls. This is the forgotten story of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, told through the voices of those who endured them, the nuns who presided over them and the communities who lived alongside them.