Louise Brangan: Inside Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

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Jul 16, 202650:50Society & Culture

Throughout the 20th century in Ireland, thousands of women and girls were sent to work in Magdalene Laundries all across the country. By 1951, for every 100,000 women in Ireland, 70 were locked away in a laundry, spendin...

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