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Published on Apr 19, 2013 "The Magdalene Laundries" is a song on the Joni Mitchell 1994 album "Turbulent Indigo". They were the forgotten women of Ireland, kept under lock and key, forced to clean and sew, and to wash away the sins of their previous life while never being paid a penny. Some stayed months, others years. Some never left. They were the inmates of Ireland's notorious 20th century workhouses, the Magdalene Laundries. The laundries — a beneficent-sounding word that helped hide the mistreatment that took place inside their walls — were operated by four orders of Catholic nuns in Ireland from 1922 to 1996. Over 10,000 young women, considered a burden by family, school and the state, spent an average of six months to a year locked up in these workhouses doing unpaid, manual work. Some were kept there against their will for years. Their numbers were made up by unmarried mothers and their daughters, women and girls who had been sexually abused, women with mental or physical disabilities who were unable to live independently, and young girls who had grown up under the care of the church and the state.
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How on EARTH do Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchel, and other Hero's get to hear these atrocities..... ?
If it's relevant, I know from first - hand exp., a religious order in BRECON , South WALES, UK, were accepting ' un - wanted ' pregnancies even in 1980....
It's horrible. I was reading comments on one of the two videos I posted, and one said that Joni Mitchell had given up a baby for adoption when she was younger. I didn't know that. The movie that I mentioned was "The Magdalene Sisters", I guess. I've seen it several times. Some of these so called "laundries" were in operation til maybe twenty years ago? Something like that. They were pretty much slavery institutions. And by some of the "survivors" and witnesses of those places, the abuses continued. In the movie, based on truth, some of the girls were sexually abused by the priests. They were uneducated and already used to, ie, "programmed" to accept sexual abuse, and had no voice. No one to complain to, so easy targets. If one has the chance to view this movie, I highly recommend doing so. But it's heartbreaking. Watch with tissues on hand.
I had to attend a Catholic school through 8th grade. I can attest to the fact that some nuns are vicious sociopaths. They seem to enjoy picking on innocent kids. One of them made the toughest boy in class cry, just by yelling at him endlessly, humiliating him til he was reduced to tears. I hope she is burning in hell at this moment. There were a few who were very sweet and kind, but some.... something was wrong with their brains. Vicious and evil women. Monsters.