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1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
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.
1. Patented villains -- 2. Never free from their espionage -- 3. The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, Limerick -- 4. A citadel of piety -- 5 The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, New Ross -- 6. Do penance or perish -- 7. The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, Cork (part 2).
Originally published: Piltown, Ireland: Congrave Press, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.