Behind the foreboding walls of Ireland's Magdalene institutions, generations of marginalized women and girls suffered horrific abuse, exploitation and enslavement by Church and State from the 18th to late 20th century. What began as Protestant reformatories soon expanded into a sprawling network of Catholic-run for-profit laundries extracting unpaid convict labor from thousands of socially-outcast women.
In IRELAND'S FALLEN WOMEN, Daily Source...
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