<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 25 Oct 1996, the last “Magdalene laundry” in Ireland closes. </p><p>In 2013, the Irish government issued a formal state apology to the women forced to work in the homes.</p><p>Here's archive film: <a href="https://ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-collection-magdalene-laundry/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-collection-magdalene-laundry/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ifiplayer.ie/father-delaney-co</span><span class="invisible">llection-magdalene-laundry/</span></a></p><p>And here's more about how the laundries operated: <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/last-days-of-a-laundry-1.89388" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.irishtimes.com/culture/last-days-of-a-laundry-1.89388"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.irishtimes.com/culture/las</span><span class="invisible">t-days-of-a-laundry-1.89388</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/irishhistory/" rel="tag">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistory/" rel="tag">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
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<p>"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the <a href="/tags/irishfamine/" rel="tag">#IrishFamine</a> doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although <a href="/tags/ireland/" rel="tag">#Ireland</a> was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ " </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n2</span><span class="invisible">1/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/greatfamine/" rel="tag">#GreatFamine</a> <a href="/tags/irishhistory/" rel="tag">#IrishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/colonialism/" rel="tag">#colonialism</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>