Testimony: new documentary shows a stark reckoning with Ireland’s Magdalene past – and the long fight for justice

By Ruth Barton, Fellow Emeritus in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin

The scandal of the religious-run Magdalene laundries, where young women deemed to have offended the moral code of the Catholic Church were incarcerated and put to work, is a stain on the public history of the Irish state. It has taken years of campaigning to bring this injustice to light.

Even now, it is more than feasible that further revelations will emerge. They did in 2012, when amateur historian Catherine Corliss uncovered evidence…

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