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

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 ...

The horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries have been documented in countless books, films and even a Joni Mitchell song — and now in a short, powerful novel, “Small Things Like These.” But as they ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Many of the women and girls subjected to harsh discipline and unpaid work in Ireland's now-notorious Magdalene Laundries were sent there by the Irish state, an official report said ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was criticised by members of his own government on Wednesday for not issuing the state apology sought by ex-inmates of the notorious Magdalene ...