Something good on the BBC. And, nice, and appropriate, to hear Sinead O' Connor in episode 2.

#TheWomanInTheWall #MagdaleneLaundries #MastoDaoine #Ireland #religion #SineadOConnor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q28v

‘Deplorable places’: why one #BBC drama is shedding light on #Ireland’s #ChurchRun #abuse factories

When Bafta nominee #JoeMurtagh learned about the #MagdaleneLaundries, he realised he had to tell their tale. Here, he explains how he wrote new thriller #TheWomanInTheWall, starring #RuthWilson
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/09/deplorable-places-why-one-bbc-drama-is-shedding-light-on-irelands-church-run-abuse-factories #Religion

#Sinéad was right. That was 1992. The last of Canada's 139 residential schools for Indigenous children closed in 1998.

Via The Decolonial Atlas https://www.facebook.com/100080290562951/posts/pfbid02Kusz1JsTGfK5DNTj9131XnNPCRxYgYMqmxeMioM6vzstxFsMaNGztieTQdpCrzTil/?sfnsn=mo

The Magdalene Laundries of Ireland and the Canadian residential schools are cousins. #ResidentialSchools #Canada #MagdaleneLaundries #Ireland

Visited #Abbotsford in #Melbourne today: founded by Irish nuns from the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1863, by 1901 it was largest charitable institution operating in the Southern Hemisphere. Its large #convent, chapel, Magdalen Laundry & industrial school are still extant. Saved via community efforts, it’s a popular arts centre now, but still grappling with its past, and how to interpret the diverse (traumatic and redemptive) stories of the women and girls who lived here.
#magdalenelaundries

#MagdaleneLaundries in Ireland is one of the many amoral reasons the #CatholicChurch is so filthy rich, and also why it is losing members. 😡

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_Laundries_in_Ireland

#MagdaleneLaundries

For the Lost Children of #Tuam, a Proper Burial at Last

Hundreds of small bodies were buried under a playground at a home for unwed mothers, many in a disused sewage system. Years after Ireland acknowledged the grim discovery, a resolution is finally near. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/world/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-home-tuam.html

Just watching #Irelandam on #virginmedia
and their piece on #motherandbabyhomes #magdalenelaundries
It's horrific what the #Irish state and #Catholic Church did to #Women of #ireland
#mothers and #children were brutalised
They deserve #redress #compensation their #records
Their stories need to be told
There should be a museum also dedicated to all those mistreated by the state and #church
We had aspects of the #handmaidstale in this country

Read all about the sins of the Bon Secours sisters in Polaris, my fourth poetry collection, shortlisted for a Saltire Literary Award. This poetical, post-colonial re-telling of the history of these islands, includes original poetry in Gaelic and English, as well as many of the native and community languages of these nations.

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#tuam #galway #gaillimh #magdalenelaundries #magdalenelaundries