Claire McGettrick, Katherine O'Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke, James M. Smith, Mari Steed

Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries (eBook, ePUB)

A Campaign for Justice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried mothers. These girls and women were subjected to forced labour as well as psychological and physical maltreatment.

Using the Irish State's own report into the Magdalene institutions, as well as testimonies from survivors and independent witnesses, this book gives a detailed account of life behind the high walls of Ireland's Magdalene institutions. The book offers an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish State's response culminating in the McAleese Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group.

Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries documents the ongoing work carried out by the Justice for Magdalenes group in advancing public knowledge and research into Magdalene Laundries, and how the Irish State continues to evade its responsibilities not just to survivors of the Magdalenes but also in providing a truthful account of what happened. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, this book reveals the fundamental flaws in the state's investigation and how the treatment of the burials, exhumation and cremation of former Magdalene women remains a deeply troubling issue today, emblematic of the system of torture and studious official neglect in which the Magdalene women lived their lives.

The Authors are donating all royalties in the name of the women who were held in the Magdalenes to EPIC (Empowering People in Care).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755617500
• Artikelnr.: 62249252

Autorenporträt

Claire McGettrick is an Irish Research Council postgraduate scholar at the School of Sociology at University College Dublin. Her research interests focus on adoption, so-called historical abuses, and related injustices in twentieth-century Ireland. Her Ph.D. research investigates the bodies of expert knowledge on adoption. She is cofounder of Justice for Magdalenes Research (JFMR) and Adoption Rights Alliance (ARA). She jointly coordinates the multi-award-winning CLANN project with Dr Maeve O'Rourke, as well as the Magdalene Names Project (MNP), which has recorded the details of nearly1,900 women who lived and died in Ireland's Magdalen laundries. Her article, '"Illegitimate" Knowledge: Traditional Justice and Adopted People,' appeared recently in the double special issue of Éire-Ireland (Spring/Summer 2020) on Transitional Justice and institutional abuse in Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Foreword Introduction Chapter 1:
Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the Lives Lived There Chapter 2:
Survivors Begin to Be Heard Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Campaign: The
Strategies Chapter 4: Anatomy of a Campaign: Developing a Human Rights and
Justice Agenda Chapter 5: Publication of the IDC Report: The Campaign
Within the Campaign Chapter 6: Never Tell, Never Acknowledge (.everyone
knew, but no one said) Chapter 7: Ex Gratia 'Redress' Chapter 8: Bringing
up the Dead: Burials and Land Deals at High Park Chapter 9: Conclusion: Who
Do We Want to Be? Bibliography