Fifteen-year-old Eileen disappeared on a quiet Sunday evening in February 1954. She was at work when it happened. Eileen was a maid at a bed-and-breakfast in a large Georgian townhouse in inner-cit…

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For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing

In a fourth universe, those who knew insist no ordinary people had any agency to take on the Church and the State

In a fourth universe, those who knew insist no ordinary people had any agency to take on the Church and the State

A STRIKING new exhibition opens this week which explores the legacy of Ireland’s Magdalene laundr...

Magdalene Laundries were once vast islands of abandonment marking our Irish social landscape. They are closed now, but their legacies linger. When the gates were locked for the last time in 1996,...

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Across the 20th century, Ireland incarcerated over 11,000 women and girls in Magdalene laundries that were run by religious orders of nuns. These were harrowing places that did incalculable harm to th...