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 ...

When we think of the Magdalene Laundries, we think of babies. And yet no baby was born in one. We have chosen to remember the ...

The convent laundry looks cozy. Clothing in various hues dangles from lines stretching under the ceiling. The women who work there have a clear bond – they mimic Mother Victoria behind her back, 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 ...

Brigid was 12 when she was removed from her west of Ireland home in the 1940s. She was told she was being taken away because ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Brigid was 12 years old when she was sent to a Magdalene Laundry. Her hair was cut off, she was renamed “Peter”, and she was so lonely she’d go to the toilet at night just to listen to a dog barking ...

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 ...

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has apologised for the stigma and conditions suffered by women who were inmates of the Magdalene laundries. Mr Kenny said the laundries had operated in a "harsh and ...