Do penance or perish : Magdalen asylums in Ireland / Frances Finnegan.

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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Main Author: Finnegan, Frances
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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