James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Irish Studies Program, Boston College

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• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The politics of sexual knowledge: The origins of Ireland’s containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)Part 1: The Magdalen Asylum and history: Mining the archiveChapter 1 - The Magdalen in nineteenth-century IrelandChapter 2 - The Magdalen Asylum and the State in twentieth-century IrelandPart 2 :The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: Memory and storytelling in contemporary IrelandChapter 3 - Remembering Ireland’s architecture of containment: “Telling” stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Stained Glass at SamhainChapter 4 - (Ef)facing Ireland’s Magdalen survivors: Visual representations and documentary testimonyChapter 5 - The Magdalene Sisters: Film, fact, and fiction Chapter 6 - Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: Art installations and cultural memoryConclusion: History, cultural representation, . . . action? Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Irish Studies Program, Boston College

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• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The politics of sexual knowledge: The origins of Ireland’s containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)Part 1: The Magdalen Asylum and history: Mining the archiveChapter 1 - The Magdalen in nineteenth-century IrelandChapter 2 - The Magdalen Asylum and the State in twentieth-century IrelandPart 2 :The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: Memory and storytelling in contemporary IrelandChapter 3 - Remembering Ireland’s architecture of containment: “Telling” stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Stained Glass at SamhainChapter 4 - (Ef)facing Ireland’s Magdalen survivors: Visual representations and documentary testimonyChapter 5 - The Magdalene Sisters: Film, fact, and fiction Chapter 6 - Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: Art installations and cultural memoryConclusion: History, cultural representation, . . . action? Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

James M. Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Irish Studies Program, Boston College

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• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The politics of sexual knowledge: The origins of Ireland’s containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)Part 1: The Magdalen Asylum and history: Mining the archiveChapter 1 - The Magdalen in nineteenth-century IrelandChapter 2 - The Magdalen Asylum and the State in twentieth-century IrelandPart 2 :The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: Memory and storytelling in contemporary IrelandChapter 3 - Remembering Ireland’s architecture of containment: “Telling” stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Stained Glass at SamhainChapter 4 - (Ef)facing Ireland’s Magdalen survivors: Visual representations and documentary testimonyChapter 5 - The Magdalene Sisters: Film, fact, and fiction Chapter 6 - Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: Art installations and cultural memoryConclusion: History, cultural representation, . . . action? Appendix Notes Bibliography Index