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Report on the Magdalene Laundries. [View all]
I'm just catching up on the news of the recently released report on the Magdalene laundries. Frankly I'd never heard of them until Peter Mullan's film The Magdalene Sisters was released a while back, and The Washington Post religion section profiled a survivor who'd been reunited with the daughter she'd given up for adoption.
A bit of background from the BBC:
Taoiseach to meet with survivors of the Magdalene laundries:
[url]http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0208/breaking15.html[/url]
Trailer for the film The Magdalene Sisters:
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