DUBLIN (IRELAND)
Agence France-Presse via Jakarta Post
June 7, 2018
By Julien Lagache
Scores of women forced to work in “Magdalene Laundries” — Irish penitentiary work-houses run by the Catholic Church — gathered for the first time in Dublin this week for an emotional reunion.
The “Magdalene Sisters” — the title of an award-winning film about this dark chapter in Irish history — shared stories about their internment and voiced anger at belated official apologies.
Teresa O’Connor, one of 200 survivors of the work-houses for “fallen women” which only closed in 1996, told AFP she was overwhelmed at meeting so many others who shared her suffering.
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