IRELAND
Irish Times
Lorna Siggins
Wed, Jul 2, 2014
The “repression, authoritarianism” and “social impoverishment” of a society which led to the Magdalene laundries is one that “makes one shiver with revulsion”, Sabina Higgins said in Galway last night.
The courage shown by former nun Patricia Burke Brogan in making a “principled stand” against the “dreadful denial of freedom and of human dignity” to the Magdalene laundry women required a “steely strong commitment” to value judgments, Ms Higgins said.
Ms Higgins was marking publication of Ms Burke Brogan’s autobiography, Memoir with Grykes and Turloughs, at the Galway Education Centre.
Ms Burke Brogan’s play, Eclipsed, first staged in 1992 after several rejections, exposed a “complicity and conspiracy of silence”, Ms Higgins recalled.
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