Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances Finnegan

Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland

Frances Finnegan

256 pages paperback 2001

2 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums--homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged-and many forcibly preven...

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