Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries

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Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families

Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance

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This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our

A Dublin Magdalene Laundry

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Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The m

Predatory Nuns

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Since the first scandals broke in the mid-1980s, the sexual misconducts of priests have cost the Catholic Church in America more than $4 billion in compensation

Narratives of the Unspoken in Contemporary Irish Fiction

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This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically s