The Legacy of the Laundries

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

From 1922, between 10-30,000 women and girls are thought to have been incarcerated at the Magdalene laundries which operated in Ireland. New Generation Thinker Louise Brangan has been reading the testimonies of many of the girls who survived these institutions. As the Irish state tries to come to terms with this history, how should it be spoken about? Is a language of legal blame and guilt enough to make sense of this history?

Dr Louise Brangan is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Strathclyde and is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (part of UKRI) to put research on radio. You can find her contributing to Free Thinking discussion episodes looking at Ireland's hidden histories and secret stories

Producer in Salford: Olive Clancy

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0:39.5	Hello, I'm Louise Brangon.
0:42.4	I'm a new generation thinker on the scheme run by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities
0:47.0	Research Council to share new academic research.
0:50.6	I study the sociology of punishment and specialise in 20th century Ireland.
0:56.4	In this episode of the Arts and Ideas podcast, I'll be reading my essay, The Legacies of the Laundries.
1:04.8	When I was seven years old, my nana mentioned to me that when she was young, living in the west of Ireland,
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