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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Magdalene asylum or Magdalene Laundries, Catholic institutions for “fallen women” Magdalene (comics), a Marvel Comics character Magdalene (sculpture)...
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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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Cronin, 1932 – 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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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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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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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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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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