IRELAND
The Journal
HER FIRST TWEET simply said: “My mother was Magdalene No. 322. Real name Margaret.”
It was met by a number of reactions, including disbelief that Magdalenes were given numbers.
“Yes,” replied Samantha Long. “I was looking over her records today and thought I’d share that. Awful.”
The Twitter user was talking about her late mother, Margaret Bullen, a woman taken into the Magdalene Laundries system when she was just two years old.
Just days ahead of the publication of a report into the level of State involvement at the now-infamous institutions, Long decided to share her family’s story.
There had been a campaign to get the hashtag #justiceformagdalenesNOW trending on Twitter to raise awareness last night and the Dublin woman’s provocative, powerful and heartbreaking tweets achieved that aim.
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