Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries were residential, commercial and for-profit laundries
operated by four Irish orders of nunsi
where between the foundation of the Irish Free
State in 1922ii and 1996, when the last institution closed, a number of girls and
women, estimated in the tens of thousands,iii were imprisoned, forced to carry out
unpaid labour and subjected to severe psychological and physical maltreatment.non-peer-reviewe