A million atrocities were inflicted on those women who were intered in those "homes".Pregnant Women and girls were made to work right up to delivery and then were not allowed pain relief because they had to suffer for their sins. Their babies were taken and sold to wealthy couples usually in America. The films Philomena and The Magdalene Launderies go into those stories. My mother and my aunt were two of those girls who ended up there. The Tuam babies mass grave is another result of the treatment of Irish women being terrorized and brutalised by the church for their "sins".
My grandmother and her sisters were raised in the laundries from toddlers to 16 years of age. Why? Because their father remarried the housekeeper after their mother died and the housekeeper didn't like them. My grandmother never admitted she was raised here, I found out from her sisters. The familial trauma and damage that prison caused my grandmother which in turn passed to my mother who was also raised in abusive homes here which then passed on to me and my siblings. Ireland is full of angry traumatised people taught to "deal with it", "get over it" etc. When my grandmother.. who raised me, found out I was in therapy she was disgusted. She said "you don't tell your business outside of the front door". Healing is gonna take a long time. My generation are acting on it now but the change is slow.
A million atrocities were inflicted on those women who were intered in those "homes".Pregnant Women and girls were made to work right up to delivery and then were not allowed pain relief because they had to suffer for their sins. Their babies were taken and sold to wealthy couples usually in America. The films Philomena and The Magdalene Launderies go into those stories. My mother and my aunt were two of those girls who ended up there. The Tuam babies mass grave is another result of the treatment of Irish women being terrorized and brutalised by the church for their "sins".
My grandmother and her sisters were raised in the laundries from toddlers to 16 years of age. Why? Because their father remarried the housekeeper after their mother died and the housekeeper didn't like them. My grandmother never admitted she was raised here, I found out from her sisters. The familial trauma and damage that prison caused my grandmother which in turn passed to my mother who was also raised in abusive homes here which then passed on to me and my siblings. Ireland is full of angry traumatised people taught to "deal with it", "get over it" etc. When my grandmother.. who raised me, found out I was in therapy she was disgusted. She said "you don't tell your business outside of the front door". Healing is gonna take a long time. My generation are acting on it now but the change is slow.