The Magdaline laundries

ilovesleep · 03-02-2013 01:21AM #1

I wanted to watch a movie tonight and went to my dvd collection and picked out the magdaline sisters movie.

I know it's only a movie but it's based on true events and it's probably not a patch of what went on in those laundries.
Truly shocking

After my movie, I browse online for a bit on my mobile and I stumble across a newspaper piece from the journal.ie, I think, about the magdaline laundries from two days ago.

More shame is due to be brought upon Ireland again next week. On Tuesday the 5th feb, a tribunal report on the madgaline laundries will be issued. I didn't know this. Last laundry/work-house was closed in 1996. And it's taken 17 years for a report. And that's it. Just a report. Any compensation or justice for the poor women tortured in those laundries?

Another disgrace for Ireland.

Banjo String · 03-02-2013 01:23AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

I wanted to watch a movie tonight and went to my dvd collection and picked out the magdaline sisters movie.

I know it's only a movie but it's based on true events and it's probably not a patch of what went on in those laundries.
Truly shocking

After my movie, I browse online for a bit on my mobile and I stumble across a newspaper piece from the journal.ie, I think, about the magdaline laundries from two days ago.

More shame is due to be brought upon Ireland again next week. On Tuesday the 5th feb, a tribunal report on the madgaline laundries will be issued. I didn't know this. Last laundry/work-house was closed in 1996. And it's taken 17 years for a report. And that's it. Just a report. Any compensation or justice for the poor women tortured in those laundries?

Another disgrace for Ireland.

Its not a fcukin chimney.

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy · 03-02-2013 01:23AM

They'll be airing all their dirty laundry in public.

Nodin · 03-02-2013 01:25AM

SamHall wrote: »

Its not a fcukin chimney.

???

Boombastic · 03-02-2013 01:25AM

how much do they charge per wash? Have they any self service machines?

Kichote · 03-02-2013 01:26AM

Where am i supposed to get my clothes washed now??

branie · 03-02-2013 01:26AM

You're not a man of God!

Manach · 03-02-2013 01:30AM

Not as if nearly every single western country had done similar or a lot worse during that period - that will not stop does who seek to perpetually denigrating Ireland.

Mr Benevolent · 03-02-2013 01:31AM

To be fair, they got the stains out of my clothes.

HTML5! · 03-02-2013 01:32AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

the magdaAnother disgrace for Ireland.

It's not really another disgrace.

I'm pretty sure it's been included in our current list of disgraces given that it was hightlighted when the film came out 10 years ago.

orestes · 03-02-2013 01:35AM

Manach wrote: »

Not as if nearly every single western country had done similar or a lot worse during that period - that will not stop does who seek to perpetually denigrating Ireland.

Cool, can you give us some examples of other instances of state-sanctioned denial of women of their liberty and their human rights by a religious institution with no accountability based on its own twisted sense of morality leading to endemic physical, emotional, psychological and sexual abuse?

You know, since it was apparently going on pretty much everywhere at the time.

Max Power · 03-02-2013 01:37AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

I wanted to watch a movie tonight and went to my dvd collection and picked out the magdaline sisters movie.

I know it's only a movie but it's based on true events and it's probably not a patch of what went on in those laundries.
Truly shocking

After my movie, I browse online for a bit on my mobile and I stumble across a newspaper piece from the journal.ie, I think, about the magdaline laundries from two days ago.

More shame is due to be brought upon Ireland again next week. On Tuesday the 5th feb, a tribunal report on the madgaline laundries will be issued. I didn't know this. Last laundry/work-house was closed in 1996. And it's taken 17 years for a report. And that's it. Just a report. Any compensation or justice for the poor women tortured in those laundries?

Another disgrace for Ireland.

You're a disgrace.

Ruudi_Mentari · 03-02-2013 01:38AM

My stepfater was in one and he sure doesn't say much.. the bristles of his moustache probably have a lot in common with the iron bars that kept him in the laundries!!

GoldenLight · 03-02-2013 01:48AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

I wanted to watch a movie tonight and went to my dvd collection and picked out the magdaline sisters movie.

I know it's only a movie but it's based on true events and it's probably not a patch of what went on in those laundries.
Truly shocking

After my movie, I browse online for a bit on my mobile and I stumble across a newspaper piece from the journal.ie, I think, about the magdaline laundries from two days ago.

More shame is due to be brought upon Ireland again next week. On Tuesday the 5th feb, a tribunal report on the madgaline laundries will be issued. I didn't know this. Last laundry/work-house was closed in 1996. And it's taken 17 years for a report. And that's it. Just a report. Any compensation or justice for the poor women tortured in those laundries?

Another disgrace for Ireland.

Like yourself, I watch the movie, and thought this is just drama, for drama sake. But I have worked in a institutional care facility from 1986 to 1992 on and off, run by the eastern health board, and the number of women that where put in their because they just became pregnant out side of wedlock was just crazy.

I'm looking forward to this report, because it was and is a huge disservice to the people who went through that toture. I know for a fact that within my a mediate family their has being at least 1 birth out of wedlock in the 40's, at least 2 (the first great grand children in the 70's) I come from a huge family. Why would anyone deny themselves family based on what society thought. (I know simplistic, in our live to day but what people did) thankfully it has changed now.

But their is still people dealing with that nightmare.

ColeTrain · 03-02-2013 01:49AM

It would make you sick thinking of the power the church held back then.

senorwipesalot · 03-02-2013 01:51AM

You hardly expected the clergy to wash their own spunkstained underpants.

ilovesleep · 03-02-2013 01:55AM

The last laundry closed in 1996 which if you think about it wasn't all that long ago.

Nazi concentration camps closed in the mid 1940s.

Nazi style concentration camps in the form of laundries for women, in Ireland and the last one closed 17 years ago. They should never have been allowed to stay open for so long.

PopePalpatine · 03-02-2013 01:57AM

Manach wrote: »

Not as if nearly every single western country had done similar or a lot worse during that period - that will not stop does who seek to perpetually denigrating Ireland.

Oh, how predictable. Don't you think that the abuse of women by religious institutions, which was enabled by successive governments deserves condemnation? Oh wait, Church's reputation > human rights.

senorwipesalot · 03-02-2013 01:59AM

ilovesleep wrote: »

The last laundry closed in 1996 which if you think about it wasn't all that long ago.

Nazi concentration camps closed in the mid 1940s.

Nazi style concentration camps in the form of laundries for women, in Ireland and the last one closed 17 years ago. They should never have been allowed to stay open for so long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_Laundry

Madam_X · 03-02-2013 02:01AM

Manach wrote: »

Not as if nearly every single western country had done similar or a lot worse during that period - that will not stop does who seek to perpetually denigrating Ireland.

Seriously. I hate the "I'm ashamed to be Irish" stuff too (why would people who are not responsible apart from being born here feel ashamed?) but firstly, nearly every single western country did not do similar or worse during that period. And secondly, even though there were horrific atrocities carried out in other countries during that time period... so? Does that somehow lessen the seriousness of this system?

ilovesleep wrote: »

The last laundry closed in 1996 which if you think about it wasn't all that long ago.

Nazi concentration camps closed in the mid 1940s.

Nazi style concentration camps in the form of laundries for women, in Ireland and the last one closed 17 years ago. They should never have been allowed to stay open for so long.

The laundries stayed open until 1996 as homes for the women who had been there most of, or all of, their lives and were institutionalised. The system of imprisoning pregnant girls there was long over by 1996.

steddyeddy · 03-02-2013 02:04AM

It is a disgrace but not an unexpected one. I dont know anyone that was in the laundries but then again I dont know anyone of african descent who was in south africa pre democracy. The shame is some of the nuns who are still alive are not in prison.

GoldenLight · 03-02-2013 02:11AM

Madam_X wrote: »

The laundries stayed open until 1996, as homes for the women who had been there most of, or all of, their lives and were institutionalised. The system of imprisoning pregnant girls there was long over by 1996.

As I stated in an earlier post it wasn't just the RC it was our govnerment as well, who put women into hell holes. Just go back and read my orginal post, those women are still being institutionalisation to this day.

Either way all of it's horrific care on

Gbear · 03-02-2013 02:12AM

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

You're a disgrace.

Your face is a disgrace!

BOOM!

GoldenLight · 03-02-2013 02:16AM

Gbear wrote: »

Your face is a disgrace!

BOOM!

What do you mean??

bb12 · 03-02-2013 02:24AM

a lot of countries have dirty little secrets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization

was particularly shocked about this subject when i recently discovered sweden's involvement in it

jjbrien · 03-02-2013 02:27AM

GoldenLight wrote: »

As I stated in an earlier post it wasn't just the RC it was our govnerment as well, who put women into hell holes. Just go back and read my orginal post, those women are still being institutionalisation to this day.

Either way all of it's horrific care on

Sometimes i wonder if eamon de valera was a hero or a criminal it was his idea to give the church a special place in the constitution which in turn allowed the church to get up to all these sins

If you also look at Song for a Raggy boy again another shocker but thats very mild at what the church did to young women and men

orestes · 03-02-2013 02:31AM

bb12 wrote: »

a lot of countries have dirty little secrets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization

was particularly shocked about this subject when i recently discovered sweden's involvement in it

Did you really have to link to an article that states one of the most culturally progressive countries in the world once practiced systematic sterilization directed towards travellers and people considered to be a burden to the welfare state? AH is gonna bloody explode!

Madam_X · 03-02-2013 02:35AM

orestes wrote: »

Did you really have to link to an article that states one of the most culturally progressive countries in the world once practiced systematic sterilization directed towards travellers and people considered to be a burden to the welfare state? AH is gonna bloody explode!

Sweden was a totally spearheading nation of eugenics.

/stirs sh1t :pac:

delw · 03-02-2013 02:38AM

Kichote wrote: »

Where am i supposed to get my clothes washed now??

Jaysus, have you not got your clothes washed since 1996?

steddyeddy · 03-02-2013 02:40AM

As a victim of abuse I can safely say I'm not ashamed of the irish. It was Irish people who helped me back onto the road to recovery. When I told most of my mates about what happened to me they have went out of their way to help me. Irish people have nothing to be ashamed about, The individuals who commited these crimes do but they do not represent the Irish as a whole.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 03-02-2013 02:40AM

bb12 wrote: »

a lot of countries have dirty little secrets...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization

was particularly shocked about this subject when i recently discovered sweden's involvement in it

Bloody Swedes.

The Magdaline laundries

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