IRELAND
Daily Mail (UK)
By Kelly Mclaughlin For Mailonline
Eerie photos from Magdalene Laundries around the world show children eating dinner as nuns watch over them and young women working on heavy equipment.
The images give an insight into life inside the laundries, which were places for women branded ‘undesirable’ by the church and orphaned children, where untold horrors are said to have taken place.
The establishments were set-up to house ‘fallen women’, a term that was used to imply female sexual promiscuity, when in reality they were women who had children out of wedlock.
These institutions, also known as Magdalene asylums, have sparked great controversy, only this month a mass septic tank containing the skeletons of 800 babies was found in County Galway, Ireland.
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