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High Park Convent Laundry, 2009
High Park Convent and Laundry, Dublin, Ireland
Good Shepherd Convent and Laundry, Cork, Ireland, Alwyn Jennings/AJ Photography https://www.facebook.com/AJ.Photography.Cork
Interior, Good Shepherd Convent, Cork, Ireland, Alwyn Jennings/AJ Photography https://www.facebook.com/AJ.Photography.Cork
Grave, Margaret Mullen, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Gravesite, former Magdalenes, Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Graves, former Magdalenes, Donnybrook Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Magdalene graves at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
Magdalenes, 19th Century
Magdalen Laundry Scene. Note girl with shaved head (L). Heads were often shaved upon entry to laundry or as punishment
Magdalenes at work
Description of Magdalene Workhouse, "Priests and People in Ireland," Michael J. F. McCarthy, 1903.
Magdalen Society Asylum, New York City, 1836
Scene from Magdalen Asylum, New York City, 1872.

Magdalenes of Ireland

Published February 08, 2013

The "Magdalene Laundries" were intended to be homes for troubled girls, but ended up as dumping grounds for unwed mothers, orphans, the mentally disabled, the homeless and the unwanted. More than 11,000 women passed through ten Magdalene institutions between 1922 and 1996. NOTE: Magdalene Societies in the United States operated asylums across the country in the 19th Century, patterned on the Irish model.