Do penance or perish Magdalen asylums in Ireland
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2004, 2004
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Piltown, Ireland: Congrave Press, 2001 |
| Physical Description: | xii, 256 p., [16]p. of plates ill., ports |
| ISBN: | 9780199849901 0199849900 |