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Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith

Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment

James M. Smith

320 pages 2007

4 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Magdalen laundries were workhouses in which many Irish women and girls were effectively imprisoned because they were perceived to be a threat to the moral fiber of society. Mandated by the Irish state beginning in the eighteenth century, they ...

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