Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries

Miriam Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Studies in Drama, Theatre and Performance at NUI GalwayMary McAuliffe is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at University College DublinEmilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at University College Dublin

‘..an absorbing and insightful examination of one of the most traumatic and shameful legacies of Ireland's past… an invaluable resource for anyone interested in understanding how such institutions came into beingand the harm they wreaked on those women who spent time in them.’Studies

• Foreword: Memory, violence, and the body – Marianne HirschAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state – Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie PinePart I Witnessing and remembering: Magdalen Laundries1 Public performance and reclaiming space: Waterford's Magdalen Laundry – Jennifer O’Mahoney, Kate McCarthy, and Jonathan Culleton2 ‘A document of truth?’ Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the McAleese Report – Lucy Simpson-Kilbane3 Unremembered in life and death: funeral and burial practices in Ireland's Magdalen Laundries – Nathalie Sebbane4 Witnessing: testimonial knowledge as ongoing memory transmission – Audrey Rousseau5 Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed in Brazil: resonances and reflections – Alinne FernandesPart II Parallel histories: then and now6 From Tuam to Birmingham: a case study of children’s homes in Ireland and the UK – Sarah-Anne Buckley and Lorraine Grimes7 Reflections on Ireland’s ‘home(s)’: shame, stigma, and grievability – Clara Fischer8 ‘He’d never have gotten a job like that if he ’ d stayed with me’ – the uneasy comedy of Philomena – Mary McGill9 ‘That stuff is FOI-able … and it could be used against us if someone takes a case’: unlawful adoption in the past and the present – how much has changed? – Conall Ó Fátharta10 Contract, the state, and the Magdalene Laundries – Máiréad Enright11 Who is protecting who and what? The Irish state and the death of women who sell sex: a historical and contemporary analysis – Eilís Ward12 Homing in on the states we are in – Speaking of IMELDA13 Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres: our past and our present – Vukasín Nedeljkovic Index