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Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished 'fallen Women' and Their Children by Caelainn Hogan

Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished 'fallen Women' and Their Children

Caelainn Hogan

256 pages • paperback • 2020

4 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of "fallen women." In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and c...

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