Ireland’s Forced Labour Survivors

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Women abused in institutions run by the Catholic Church are demanding answers from religious authorities and the government. But will the latest inquiry give them any peace?

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0:00.0	This is a BBC Podcast.
0:02.4	You can get all our podcasts and our terms of use
0:04.9	at BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts.
0:11.4	This was where the used to unload all the laundry.
0:14.2	I can't tell you how much laundry there was here.
0:16.7	We had all the colleges, all the hotels of Dublin.
0:19.5	We had the president's residence.
0:21.3	We did their laundry.
0:23.1	I'm Sue Lloyd-Robbins, and today's assignment
0:25.6	comes from Ireland,
0:27.1	where a scandal involving church and state continues.
0:31.0	This is a country struggling
0:32.5	with a legacy of abuse committed by a Catholic authorities
0:36.0	who dominated Irish social life
0:38.4	throughout the 20th century.
0:40.9	A new inquiry has been announced into mother and baby homes,
0:45.4	but the survivors of a different type
0:47.2	of religious institution are still looking for answers.
0:50.8	I actually went in there and I watched loads of socks
0:53.2	and scrubbed colours of shirts.
0:56.2	This is the hole, the punishment room,
0:58.8	the undiscawnary here,
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