IRELAND
Irish Independent
Grainne Cunningham– 20 February 2013
JANE and Ellen, 45 years each. Margaret G, 46 years. Mary K, 51 years. Agnes, 66 years.
The list read aloud outside the Dail sounded like a record of prison sentences.
In many ways it was, as Justice for the Magdalenes remembered the women who never left the laundries.
While inside Government buildings, some of the group awaited Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s words, outside among the candles, eyes filled with tears as the names of those who died in the laundries were read aloud.
Except there was not enough time to call out the names of all 1,150 women who entered those high-walled places of hard work and never left, so a few of those who toiled there the longest were called out.
Some, like Margaret G are still there, buried within the confines of Sunday’s Well. Others like Agnes were moved from Hyde Park to Glasnevin Cemetery “to make way for a property development”.
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