More than half the women who appealed their compensation for having been in Magdalene laundries received additional payments, ...

They were the forgotten women of Ireland, kept under lock and key, forced to clean and sew, and to wash away the sins of their previous life while never being paid a penny. Some stayed months, others ...

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DUBLIN — They are a haunting sight in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters: the notice boards that spring up outside Red Cross tents and hospitals, covered in notes from desperate people ...

Irish actor Cillian Murphy reflected on the "collective trauma" of Ireland's infamous Magdalene Laundries at the launch of his new film "Small Things Like These" at the Berlin International Film ...

DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland’s government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor and usually against their will, a fact-finding report ...

‘Yearning for justice’: Daryl McCormack and Ruth Wilson in the hard-hitting new BBC drama ‘The Woman in the Wall’ (BBC/Motive Pictures/Chris Barr) The past has all the clues to the present,” says Ruth ...

In June 2018, more than 200 women gathered in Dublin for a special two-day event. Many of the women were elderly and accompanied by family and caregivers. Some were returning to Ireland for the first ...

DUBLIN — Ireland will pay several hundred former residents of Catholic-run Magdalene laundries at least 34.5 million euros ($45 million) to compensate them for their years of unpaid labor and public ...