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Do penance or perish : Magdalen asylums in Ireland /

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Frances Finnegan traces the history of the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, homes founded in the 19th century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform, but which later received unwed mothers, wayward girls & the mentally retarded, all of them put to work as forced labour in church-run laun...

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Main Author: Finnegan, Frances
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Women > Institutional care > Ireland > History.
Prostitutes > Rehabilitation > Ireland > History.
Church work with prostitutes > Ireland > History.
Church work with prostitutes > Catholic Church.
Unmarried mothers > Institutional care > Ireland > History.
Reformatories for women > Ireland > History.
Pastorale des prostituées > Irlande > Histoire.
Pastorale des prostituées > Église catholique.
Mères célibataires > Soins en institutions > Irlande > Histoire.
Prisons de femmes > Irlande > Histoire.
Church work with prostitutes > Catholic Church
Church work with prostitutes
Prostitutes > Rehabilitation
Reformatories for women
Unmarried mothers > Institutional care
Women > Institutional care
Ireland
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History
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Summary:Frances Finnegan traces the history of the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, homes founded in the 19th century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform, but which later received unwed mothers, wayward girls & the mentally retarded, all of them put to work as forced labour in church-run laundries.
Item Description:Originally published: Piltown, Ireland: Congrave Press, 2001.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199849901
0199849900
9780195174601
0195174607