A Dublin Magdalene Laundry
Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland
- 288 pages
- English
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A Dublin Magdalene Laundry
Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland
About this book
Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies and Magdalene Laundries now attracts increasing investigation and scholarship. Bringing together contributions from leading experts across a broad range of disciplines, including history, philosophy, law, archaeology, criminology, accounting and architecture, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Magdalene system through a close study of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. To date, the Justice for Magdalenes Research group has recorded the names of 315 women and girls who died at Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry. By focusing on this one institution-on its ethos, development, operation and built environment, and the lives of the girls and women held there-this book reveals the underlying framework of Ireland's wider system of institutionalisation. The analysis includes a focus on the privatisation and commodification of public welfare, reproductive injustice, institutionalised misogyny, class prejudice, the visibility of supposedly 'hidden' institutions and the role of oral testimony in reconstructing history. In undertaking such a close study, the authors uncover truths missing from the state's own investigations; shed new light on how these brutal institutions came to have such a powerful presence in Irish society, and highlight the significance of their continuing impact on modern Ireland.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Political, Cultural and Social Contexts of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry
- 1 The Religious Sisters of Charity: Origins, Development and Controversies
- 2 Donnybrook Magdalene Asylum and the Priorities of a Nation: A History of Respectability
- 3 ‘Cheap in the End’: A History of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry
- 4 ‘Magdalene’ Testimony from the Donnybrook Laundry
- Social, Commercial and Legal Significance of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry
- 5 Designing Donnybrook: Conceiving Ireland’s ‘Architecture of Containment’
- 6 ‘Benefactors and Friends’: Charitable Bequests, Reparation and the Donnybrook Laundry
- 7 Accounting at the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry
- 8 ‘Women of Evil Life’: Donnybrook Magdalene and the Criminal Justice System
- Heritage and Memory
- 9 Contemporary Archaeology and Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry: Working with the Material Remnants of an Institutionalized Recent Past
- 10 The Material Evidence of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry
- 11 Guerrilla Archive: Donnybrook and the Magdalene Names Project
- Appendix
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright