DUBLIN — They are a haunting sight in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters: the notice boards that spring up outside Red Cross tents and hospitals, covered in notes from desperate people ...

Louise Brangan’s fluent and deeply compassionate account makes a serious contribution to a subject that has still not been ...

There is a feeling among some observers that Ireland's Magdalene Laundry and Mother and Baby Homes scandals have been addressed and redressed, but nothing could be further from the truth, this new ...

The horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries have been documented in countless books, films and even a Joni Mitchell song — and now in a short, powerful novel, “Small Things Like These.” But as they ...

Relatives of victims of the Magdalene Laundries hold a candle lit vigil in solidarity with Justice for Magdalene Survivors and their families outside Leinster House, Dublin, Feb. 19, 2013. Irish Prime ...

In 2008, James Smith received a phone call from a woman who had just read his book, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment, which describes the history of the Roman ...

The convent laundry looks cozy. Clothing in various hues dangles from lines stretching under the ceiling. The women who work there have a clear bond – they mimic Mother Victoria behind her back, they ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Many of the women and girls subjected to harsh discipline and unpaid work in Ireland's now-notorious Magdalene Laundries were sent there by the Irish state, an official report said ...

An Irish woman who was sent to work at a Magdalene Laundry at the age of 11 and left uneducated and malnourished has won a battle for compensation. Mary Cavner, 80, was initially told she was ...