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Magdalene Laundries - Coggle Diagram
Magdalene Laundries
What were they?
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~ 30,000 of women were confined in these institutions in Ireland
Dublin 1993, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity
Owners & operators of the laundry lost money in share dealings on the stock exchange; to cover their losses, they sold part of the land in their convent to a property developer
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The Sisters arranged to have the remains cremated and reburied in a mass grave at Glasnevin Cemetery, splitting the cost of the reburial with the property developer
Death certificates existed for only 75 of the original 133, despite it being a criminal offence to fail to register a death that occurs on one's premises
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Why?
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. These "large complexes" became a "massive interlocking system…carefully and painstakingly built up…over a number of decades"; and consequently, Magdalen laundries became part of Ireland's "larger system for the control of children and women" (Raftery 18).
Examples were Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge and the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, who ran the largest laundries in Dublin
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Several religious institutes established even more Irish laundries, reformatories and industrial schools,
Unkown
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Vital information about the women's circumstances, the number of women, and the consequences of their incarceration is unknown.
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Due to the religious institutes' "policy of secrecy", their penitent registers and convent annals remain closed to this day, despite repeated requests for information.