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OverviewTowards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies and Magdalene Laundries now attracts increasing investigation and scholarship. Bringing together contributions from leading experts across a broad range of disciplines, including history, philosophy, law, archaeology, criminology, accounting and architecture, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the Magdalene system through a close study of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry in Dublin. To date, the Justice for Magdalenes Research group has recorded the names of 315 women and girls who died at Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry. By focusing on this one institution—on its ethos, development, operation and built environment, and the lives of the girls and women held there—this book reveals the underlying framework of Ireland's wider system of institutionalisation. The analysis includes a focus on the privatisation and commodification of public welfare, reproductive injustice, institutionalised misogyny, class prejudice, the visibility of supposedly 'hidden' institutions and the role of oral testimony in reconstructing history. In undertaking such a close study, the authors uncover truths missing from the state's own investigations; shed new light on how these brutal institutions came to have such a powerful presence in Irish society, and highlight the significance of their continuing impact on modern Ireland. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Coen , Katherine O’Donnell , Maeve O'RourkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350279056ISBN 10: 1350279056 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 23 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction – Mark Coen, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O’Rourke Political, Cultural and Social Contexts of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry 1. The Religious Sisters of Charity: Origins, Development and Controversies, Mark Coen Donnybrook 2. Magdalene Asylum and the Priorities of a Nation: A History of Respectability, Lindsey Earner-Byrne 3. ‘Cheap in the End’: A History of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry, Mark Coen 4. ‘Magdalene’ Testimony from the Donnybrook Laundry, Katherine O’Donnell Social, Commercial and Legal Significance of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry 5. Designing Donnybrook: Conceiving Ireland’s ‘Architecture of Containment’, Chris Hamill 6. ‘Benefactors and Friends’: Charitable Bequests, Reparation and the Donnybrook Laundry, Máiréad Enright 7. Accounting at the Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry, Brid Murphy and Martin Quinn 8. ‘Women of Evil Life’: Donnybrook Magdalene and the Criminal Justice System, Lynsey Black Heritage and Memory 9. Contemporary Archaeology and Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry: Working with the Material Remnants of an Institutionalised Recent Past, Laura McAtackney 10. The Material Evidence of Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry (i) Museum Display and Interpretation as an act of Social Justice, Brenda Malone (ii) Archival Legacies, Barry Houlihan 11. Guerrilla Archive: Donnybrook and the Magdalene Names Project, Claire McGettrickReviewsOne of the remarkable achievements of this book is the amount of detail that the writers managed to gather without access to the archives of the Religious Sisters of Charity […] through [the writers’] work, the voice of survivors of the institution is given the prominence and respect it deserves * History Ireland * A Dublin Magdalene Laundry is not only an excellent, well-documented account of one of the biggest Magdalene Laundries in Ireland ... It analyses the social, cultural, religious, and political ideologies, as well as the class and gender biases that contributed to the construction of a deeply patriarchal society ... The book also gives a voice to survivors, something that official enquiries have denied them. For all these reasons, it constitutes an important contribution for those researchers, survivors, and members of the general public interested in Irish history, historical abuse, institutional violence against women and children, and processes of transitional justice. a national identity based on sexual morals that placed a burden on women’s lives, bodies, and sexuality. * Estudios Irlandeses * One of the remarkable achievements of this book is the amount of detail that the writers managed to gather without access to the archives of the Religious Sisters of Charity […] through [the writers’] work, the voice of survivors of the institution is given the prominence and respect it deserves * History Ireland * Author InformationMark Coen is a Lecturer in Law at University College Dublin, Ireland. His historical research has been published in the American Journal of Legal History and the Law and History Review. He is the sole editor of The Offences Against the State Act at 80: A Model Counter-Terrorism Act? (Hart, 2021). Katherine O’Donnell is Professor, History of Ideas, at UCD School of Philosophy University College Dublin, Ireland, and is a member of the Justice for Magdalenes Research group. She is also co-author of Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice (Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2021). Maeve O’Rourke is Assistant Professor of Human Rights at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway, Ireland, and a member of the Justice for Magdalenes Research group. She is also co-author of Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice (Bloomsbury/I.B. Tauris, 2021). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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