Thank you so much everyone for your overwhelming support both for the survivors and for this channel ❤️

@daveypayne5988

10 ай бұрын

this is a great Docu!

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

@daveypayne5988 thank you very much.

@carolinegauld9570

10 ай бұрын

My mum, who I sadly barely remember,as she died of cancer when I was three, was born in a Magdalene laundry. I recently discovered she had three siblings, who apparently all died in childhood. My mother escaped the laundry in 1960. My mother doesn’t even have a birth certificate. Thank you for this documentary. The pure horror of this was hidden for so long and went unpunished. Thank you brave ladies for speaking out.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

I'm really sorry to hear that. The lack of record keeping is outrageous. It leaves us with nothing. It's not right.

@jackiekelly4776

6 ай бұрын

​@@ADropintheOcean-lr5qnThank you so so so so so so sooooooo much for making this video and the impeccable presentation of it. Your decision to start the video by addressing and offering your deepest admiration and respect to any/all survivors of the Magdalene Laundries exhibited kindness, compassion, and understanding of the highest caliber. I also couldn't help but shed a few tears when you stated "what happened to the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries should have NEVER happened nor should it EVER happen to ANY woman/any group of women." Please continue to do what you are doing and please know that your channel just earned a new subscriber! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

What people don’t seem to realise that these girls/ women were abused and made pregnant by someone in their family or neighbour from abuse/ rape but they were sent away and the man still roaming free to harm others angers me so much.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes it is infuriating! Especially when considered that it wasn't very long ago and yet it happened continuously without interference in any other way!! Thank you for commenting.

@emmajones8590

11 ай бұрын

A lot weren't even pregnant.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Correct Emma, in fact very few pregnant women were ever in the laundries. But a number were sent directly from the Mother and Baby homes. Many, many girls and women in the laundries had never been pregnant. It's amazing how they are still thought to have been full of prostitutes and unmarried mothers (they were in the previous century). The next episode goes through 'Routes of entry'... it certainly debunks that myth at least. Its still heartbreaking to go through though

@nicholamc2629

11 ай бұрын

Also, girls considered to be "Loose" with their morals were sent to these places.

@kaleahcollins4567

11 ай бұрын

Exactly

My mother suffered in the Limerick Magdelene laundry for years. Her crime? Her mother died. What an abominable system. It's so important that it's victims are not forgotten.

@maggieattenborrow6725

10 ай бұрын

All in the name of religion, shocking!!!!

I am not surprised. I am a product of Catholic School and although I wasn’t pregnant or trouble, nuns could be vicious and cruel as teachers.

@michelagelati3416

11 ай бұрын

I´m also not surprised, for the same reason. I attended a Catholic primary school run by nuns in the early 60´s, and they were also vicious and cruel. it was obvious to me even as a 5 year old that some of them derived sadistic pleasure from their cruel behaviour towards young innocent lives.

@rhodacostain1938

11 ай бұрын

I attended catholic school start of the 80’s run by the nuns they were the coldest cruel sadistic women I’ve ever met in my life.

@annewhitbread8643

10 ай бұрын

Nuns were brutal and cruel even in the 70s, when i went to a all Catholic girls school.😢

These homes also existed in Australia. I have never recovered from the trauma, 17, pregnant, abandoned, sent there by my shamed parents. The admitting nun nearly fainted when I told her I wasnt baptised nor did I belong to a religion.I was then isolated from all the other girls, as if my paganism was contagious.I am writing about my experience as it robbed me of my happiness, nearly stole my son, made me a depressed, unpresent mother. I worked in the laundry..it was like a place in hell.Blessings to all survivors, karma got the cruel nuns.

@ellenmay88

11 ай бұрын

I’m in NZ and had never heard of the Magdalene institutions, let alone in Australia. Truly shocking. Sending you and all the survivors best wishes and big hugs x

@Mrs.TJTaylor

11 ай бұрын

God love you. How awful. Wishing you peace and healing.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry 😞

@NinnersNanners

11 ай бұрын

@kalayne6713 I believe you and i support you in spirit my sister x

@elviragomez5703

11 ай бұрын

Sending you good vibes and nothing but God’s presence in your life

I was at school with Irish Nuns, even as a young girl noticed something which now I can refer to as low self esteem. My sister and I were boarders, and we were called and told there was a parcel for us. Parcels were opened and inspected. We looked into the parcel and I said to my sister, "Why did mummy put the soap next to the sweets" at moment a nun swooped down on us, "What are you doing that parcel it is not yours" We walked away very embarrassed, we had both been told about the parcel, and we were actually blamed for a nuns mistake. It was insidents like that that even at that age There was something wrong with them.😢

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

There was obviously a very unhealthy attitude towards children, the very ones they were in charge of all over the country 😒 I'm sorry you went through that, I'm sure there are lasting effects for so many people to this day, it's just so wrong 😕

@gneevesgeal

10 ай бұрын

Heartbreaking

Thank you for your work putting this together to spread awareness of this terrible injustice.

When I watched your videos I was infuriated and I cried for these women and for their children who were robbed of a whole mother due to the atrocities they lived through. 💔

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

I'll admit I've shed a few tears myself during research, it's all just so heartbreaking, humans being treated worse than animals. So much for 'all humans are equal...'

THIS WAS THE GOVERMENT+THE FAULT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WHO HID ALL THIS BUT THE PUBLIC KNEW +SAID NOTHING.. HOW COULD YOU BE A FALLEN WOMAN WITHOUT A MAN ?WHAT PUNISHMENT DID THE MEN RECIEVE??????😢

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes Kathleen, women were definitely targeted unfortunately, it was an atrocity that should never have happened!

@denisemoore6134

10 ай бұрын

Women were always blamed for men's sexual advances. Never the men.

Thank you Well done on your presentation. I'm a granddaughter of 2 woman who gave birth in mother and baby homes We never knew our relatives never had a nana or cousins Because of these institutions. Those beautiful women that suffered My prayers and love go out to them . There lives horrible.The horrific pain and fear they went through. Nothing absolutely nothing will change those years for them . Thank you for your efforts to share and keep alive this content of Irish history. 💜💜💜

Thank you for holding a light to this awful dark place ✨

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

I know all about the Magdalene laundries. I was born to Irish mother and an English father in England. My mother's parents left Ireland for a better life in England. I was brought up Catholic. I'm not into religion and I believe in Odin and Valhalla as I have embraced my Danish ancestry who were Vikings. About five years ago I found out that I had an older sister. No wonder my mother went mad when I said that I wanted to trace my family tree!! It turns out that she fell pregnant by the lodger who was staying with my mother and her parents. In 1950s it was considered sinful to be a Catholic and an unmarried mother and so my sister was put up for adoption. Had my mother still been in Ireland then she would have ended up in the laundries.

I never knew this was going on until I saw an interview about it. My heat breaks for each & every one of these women. 💔💔🙏🏻🙏🏻

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

Жыл бұрын

It was very well hidden indeed. I agree it's heartbreaking, none of it should Ever have been allowed to happen it's just horrible.

You give such an amazing description of this dire absolutely awful, disgusting, crime at the hands of the Catholic Church & Nuns. These women deserve to live happy lives now & they deserve justice for these horrendous acts inflicted upon them.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Thank you Karen! I totally agree these women deserve only the best 👌

I remember watching a movie about this when i was a teenager. I was truly disgusting and disappointing how the church instead of helping these girls and babies they abused them. They blamed them instead of holding the young men involved responsible. All i can remember was a part on the movie where a young lady whom had mental issues who was repeatedly taken advantage of by the people in her life. No one believed she was being abused by a specific priests but one girl named Bridgette who decided to take matters into her own hands .She took poison ivy and put it in the priest laundry this was a sure fire way to catch him in the act.she did. The priest had a horrible rash but unfortunately so did the poor mental girl . Her mouth her lower parts as well was rashed up because of what the priest did. . Bridgette was found out and was punished horribly. All i could remember was the mental girl repeatedly telling him He's NOT A MAN OF GD .HES NOT A MAN OF GD. U til she was also beating nearly to death.

And Tuam where the babies' are buried 800 of them How could they explain that. !!!!! The church has a helluva lot to answerr for !!!!!😢😢😢😢

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes, there's no answer can be given to justify any of it 😔

@coralmccrystal4606

11 ай бұрын

It's so chilling to think of. There were 650 pupils at my school. More babies buried heartlessly in a sewer than numbers in the whole school. I think they dug up bodies at Fred West's house and everyone was disgusted and horrified and the building was demolished but the magnitude of this is hundreds of times worse. There's no explanation for all those wee lives lost and forgotten other than abuse and cover up on a massive scale.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

@@coralmccrystal4606 Chilling is a good word to describe it unfortunatley. Yes the next Series I do is going to be on the Mother & Baby homes and the numerous Umarked graves. Then the Industrial and Reformatory Schools. It's CRAZY that there's so much to cover when it comes to absolute injustices of modern irish history. It's all very shameful to say the least. The cover ups are many, with no accountability. It's not right. Thank you for your comment.

@sandramarieroberts1172

11 ай бұрын

This is not unlike the unmarked graves of indigenous children who were taken from their parents and put in residential schools in Canada. I just witnessed a search for graves using special radar equipment a few weeks ago. As soon as I realized what they were doing, I retreated as this was a sacred act. Hundreds were found at various locations run by both Catholic and Anglican churches. An official apology came from the government and then from the pope last summer. A committee of indigenous leaders went to Rome to meet with him and tell their story. Part of the truth and reconciliation commission recommendations was financial restitution for survivors. It created inter generational trauma.

As a lifelong Catholic, I am ashamed of the church's stance on the tragedy that was the laundries. Those poor girls/women what they must have suffered is dreadful.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

I agree. Recognition of the wrong that was done would go a long way towards healing.

@jackiekelly4776

6 ай бұрын

@daisy13joyce The blatant and seemingly incessant hypocrisy that has been exhibited by the Catholic Church time and time again is one of the MANY reasons why I renounced my Irish Catholic faith at age 14....and I have never looked back.

@reginagrobosz8807

Ай бұрын

It's a good reason to become a reborn pagan. You have druidic traditions in Ireland, go for it, it's well worth it ✌️🍀

Thank you for covering this! I wish we all knew more long ago to help those like Sinead. She got a spotlight on these abuses!

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes she certainly tried. It wasn't made easy for her!

Thanks for this, I knew someone who was in one of these places in the eighties, in Scotland. Looking back it is amazing that these things happened. The power of the churches, I believe the anglican church did this as well, over its people would not be understood today, their ability to get away with ths and the states turning a blind eye, I hope, would not happen now. It is really important that people know about this so that we can learn from our mistakes.

It always amazed me that women who opted out of marriage and family life, would then run children’s homes and Laundries. I used to think as a young woman , that the Nuns were cruel because they didn’t want to be around babies and children. I am a Catholic brought up with and educated by Catholics. Most nuns were kind but there were a few who were absolutely cruel , it would never have been in my thought to complain or tell anyone what was happening , it was a sin to question a nun or priest it was a bigger sin to accuse them of abuse. No one dared complained because they knew no one would believe them and you would be punished for daring to accuse. Same in Scotland you do not question the Catholic Church, even priests and bishops who knew about cruelty denied it happened.

I would love to know more about the overseas laundries especially Australia. Many Aboriginal women were made to work in them I think and were locked in at night and not paid. Thanks for your efforts 🙏💕

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes it would be interesting to see if the Magdalene Laundries were similar elsewhere...it may be something I will cover in the future 🤔 We have a LOT of horrific injustices here since 1922 which NEED to be prevented from reoccurring so there's quite a bit I feel I need to document asap. But following that I may research how these injustices were also overseas. Thank you 😊

@secretdiva9414

11 ай бұрын

@@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn thanks for replying. I know an Aboriginal woman in her mid 70s now, who was incarcerated in a laundry for years in Perth Western Australia. I’m not sure who ran it but it was a “home for wayward girls”. Mostly girls who ran away from abuse in Catholic Aboriginal missions. I’m sure she said it was the sisters of something or rather.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

So from 1 abusive situation to another 😔 that's horrible! Thank you very much for that information 🙏

@manithangavalu7885

11 ай бұрын

​Watch rabbit proof fence, it'll make your blood boil. These rapists and criminals have alot to answer.

@LizBond-oq2hg

11 ай бұрын

In Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve in Queensland Australia, the Industrial School was established in the late 1890s to train the surviving young Aboriginal girls and older women in domestic service, laundry, cooking, cleaning, sewing, dairy work, tending gardens, caring for farm animals even droving cattle and child minding; and at the age of 12 were contracted out to work in the homes, farms and stations of strangers to work at whatever was determined by the contracted employers and the state. This carried on into the 1980s. Other states had similar set ups. No thought was given to the safety of Aboriginal children females and males. Laundries were not the only and main form or work Aboriginal children and adults were forced to work in. Sexual abuse and assault of these children and older women was a common experience. Those girls who returned to the reserves pregnant to some white employer or other white male staff were punished not the white males who thought this was not their problem; hence the problem of lighter-skinned children that became an embarrasment to Australian governments. Now those men (or their children) are the ones questioning Aboriginal identity the loudest based on skin colour. Stories abound of this type of treatment and are now well recorded in personal accounts and to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and Removal of Aboriginal children. Aboriginal people can relate to the Irish experience. A lot of Irish and English children were sent to Australia during WWII to build up the Australian population. A good Australian/English movie but very sad is Oranges and Sunshine about some ow what happened to these children too. I don't know what to say to the women and children from Ireland who experienced such cruelty but Bless you all and know that you are the strong ones.

Goodness thank you for this. An aunt of mine had a wee one - he was sent to the neighbours. My family did their best to protect her from these institutions. She passed away young and I don’t know what happened.

If there was ever a legitimate case for reparations...

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

100% agree!!!

@researchbear4074

11 ай бұрын

This would be it. Same with the INCIDENTS with my indigenous ancestors who's children were taken and put into concentration camps called schools.

@joyful_tanya

2 ай бұрын

​@@researchbear4074yes. Justice for the children and mothers.

Absolutely wonderful documentary. These secrets need to be exposed ! Thank you

Thank you for keeping the public informed about the abuse of women and girls by Irish church and state

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Each interaction with these videos helps (clicking like and commenting) so Thank you!

This is a great piece of research on a very sad piece of Irish history. It is brilliantly presented; sensitively and respectfully handled. Well done. I look forward to the next installment

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Ivan! Very sad, and only gets worse the deeper it goes 😔 Unbelievable how some are more equal than others... 🇮🇪

Torture is the word, thank you for your work.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Jane, yes Torture is definitely the word.

It is vitally important that all places of confinement be scrutinised and held accountable. Thank you for this series, to see the sheer arrogance and lies of a representative of the Irish State was a chilling reminder of our need to ensure our public representatives must be held to account. I think of my forebears only Great grandparents fleeing the Famine and the cruelty of the British. I wonder what they would feel about the decision to make the Irish Republic into a vassal of the Catholic Church. My heart goes to the suffering of all these women, a deep and dire oppression of the women of Ireland. With love Julia Nolan Australia

Brilliant start to the real horror of this era. Congratulations. Looking forward to part 2

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! Horror is a fitting word unfortunately 😕

@maulwurf62

11 ай бұрын

This „era“ ended just a few years ago. There are many who are still alive who should be prosecuted and be forced to help survivors.

SO Sad! Really Heartbreaking For All Those Poor Victims. Dreadful Stuff! Cant Wait for Next Episode,. Well Done.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, yes it's heartbreaking - and wasn't very long ago which is scary!! Episode 2 should be out shortly!

@margaretpoleon4539

11 ай бұрын

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Ah, the Catholic Church. So much for which to answer. The nuns’ cruelty was rife throughout the Catholic world, but particularly bad in Ireland

Horrendous 🤢 And not long ago... Tyankyou

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Very disturbing 😒 and Thank you!

An amazing job bringing attention to this disgraceful period. These women deserve all the help they can get.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. I wholeheartedly agree they deserve to live out their lives without wanting for anything after what they were put thought!

This video is well made. Knowing are history helps to prevent us repeating the mistakes of the past. Thank you for this video.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

If the men that were the sinner were identified and held responsible the church would never have acknowledged it.

My great-grandparents adopted a child when their other children were adults and had emigrated to the US. Aunt Minnie was a great favorite with all of us, but we never knew the circumstances about her birth. Watching things like this I’ve wondered if her mother had been sent to a laundry. Minnie knew love and joy. Her mother would have been so happy if she knew.

Good Lord how awful...and of course the Church does what it does best. Ignore, lie and deny.

We need more people doing these very informative videos, so these women can get the justice they deserve. It's heartbreaking, they should teach this in school as part of history. We were brought up to respect nuns and priests but since i learned about this all mine has gone

@philomenahearn1717

10 ай бұрын

Having spent many of my formative years in a convent boarding school I soon lost that respect for nuns - most bitter and twisted or “simple”.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Hopefully, more and more people will start telling the world about this. The more, the better!

I'm researching the laundries in Limerick for a school project. I've done extensive digging & through the Magdalene laundries FB group, I clicked on a video & then stumbled upon your channel. No coincidence there. THANK YOU! Your videos will give me much more info than all the Google searches I've been doing.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you're finding it helpful! Although there is information out there it is very scattered, it took me months to gather so I know exactly what you mean! Best wishes with your project, it's certainly on a worthwhile subject. Its great to hear you're studying it!!

I lost my faith in my Catholic religion when I learned of these places, and knowing the church knew of the abuse & ignored it , same as when they ignored the widespread abuse that the Boston Globe put a spotlight on.

Joni Mitchell's song The Magdalene Laundries remembers all these horrors

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes, a small number of songs have been written on the Magdalene Laundries.

We had laundries in New Zealand, my mum was sent to one after I was adopted out. We use to drive past one here in Auckland, we never saw anyone outside except for the occasional nun. It had a large chimney and you could see the steam. It's now part of a retirement home with apartments.

👋👋👋👍🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤ thank you because all this good informations❤❤❤❤

... what incredible trauma perpetrated in the name of salvation. A great strength in listening to the survivors, among which a firm "That wasn't education! That was slavery!"

Excellent research very informative and compassionate as well.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mick, the whole Tragedy definitely brings out compassion!

Thanks for talking about this. This is very tough and very important.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

7 ай бұрын

It really is! Thank you!

Well done. Everyone needs to know our history, so it does not get repeated.

My great aunt was a nun. She used to say that children shouldn’t be called kids because they are baby animals. When I was oldest she sent me a letter telling me how horrible I was unlike my sister who was married with a child.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

That's a horrible thing to do!! Did you ever get to approach her about it? What possible reason could she have believed was the good behind doing that???

Thank you for all your hard work ❤

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Well, as a decent of Ireland, but whose family has been in America for so long, I have never heard of this. What is sad is how humans exploit others, and oppress others never ceases to amaze me. All that has been done in the name of God is shameless. Thank you for educating me on yet another human disgusting way.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Isn't it amazing how such an atrocity is still unknown by so many!! It's one of my reasons for documenting this. It should be widely known.

@chairk4119

10 ай бұрын

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn Yes, it is. And I have been sharing as the more we know, the more out cry for justice.

You are AMAZING to bring this to the light... ❤ Wish there was MORE like you in the beginning... 😞😣😞

This can happen anywhere. Separation of Church and State.😢

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Yes and it has happened in other countries too 😔

@Nan-DQJG

11 ай бұрын

Its also well past time that legislation allowing all churches tax free status along with many other legislative benefits most of us may not be aware of be revoked. They have been allowed to become too powerful, too rich, too autonomous, given too much authority to do as they please and to hoard the money for who knows what.. while parishioners are their slave labour more often than not living in poverty or close to it.

Great work thank you for your research and informative series.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

You are welcome. Thank you, it's the least I can do. Thanks for watching and for your comment!

Thank you for doing this .💗 Jayne/Dolores - laundry baby 1962

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

You are welcome Jane! Thank you!! 😊

A terrible thing that was done to the women and children, the babies born out of wedlock were treated like the devils babies ,how can anyone think that this behaviour was acceptable, these nuns were never made accountable for what they did and neither did the priests who raped and impregnated these young girls who then got persecuted by the nuns that had allowed the priests to do to these girls whatever they wanted, EVIL EVIL BEHAVIOUR

@Victoria_Watts89

11 ай бұрын

Now that is unimaginable torture right there SMH, it runs right through me , chilling to the bone.

Hi, I've just subscribed after having one your other videos on this topic pop up as a suggestion (the algorithm is working!). Thanks for covering the Magdalene laundries. I remember a family friend, a lady, going through a tough time in the early 90s or so when she became pregnant outside marriage. She did 'disappear' for a bit (not like a missing person, but no one actually set eyes on her), and when she returned she had her wee baby. This was whispered to me, a young girl, as if it was a scandal. I had no concept of why it should be such. How sad that this was still the attitude so recently, and that there's still so much misogyny within Irish society. Appreciate your work here, thanks a million.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

27 күн бұрын

Thank you very much 🙏 It's almost unbelievable that all this continued right up almost until the 2000's! Such an incredibly difficult time for the people 😔

Thank you so much for your research and hard work. I did not know that these Magdelene Laundries also existed here in the U.S. Maryanne Rafferty

So sad how girls could be abused by male family members and those same people could turn around and say these girls had no morals ( if they wanted to speak out against the abuse) then they would be locked up for life just cuz.

Good thing the truth finally comes out!!

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Definitely! The Survivors MUST be heard, it's the very least the women deserve, plus hidden truths can not prevent reoccurrence 👌

These women were kept as slaves. Just sick!

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Undeniably!

These poor women, how absolutely heartbreaking. I’m so glad most of them were able to build a life for themselves, even if that was in a different country. Thank goodness times have changed for the better.

I find it amazing that the majority of young ladies didn’t seem to know this threat was looming over them, meaning they didn’t know they existed. That shows how ashamed and how little the young women were even open to talk about the experience to others. Where I live, growing up, we all knew the name of the troublesome girls home and the boys home in the state. We all knew that was a possibility. These young women were completely blindsided by the realities of their new lives. That blows my mind. Also means it wasn’t used as a scare tactic as much, I find that strange as well.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

One of Irelands best kept secrets, hiding in plain sight 😔

@lb1984

11 ай бұрын

@@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn I guess the ladies would have to live to tell for the word to get around. That’s so sad.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Most women that survived the laundries fled the country, understandably 😔. Those who didn't mostly never spoke about it, even later on to their spouses or children. The stigma was unbelievable. If you spent any time in a magdalene institution you were automatically considered an 'untouchable'. It's all extremely difficult to believe. Partly why it was allowed to continue...those who tried to tell were not believed. The whole thing is like a really bad dream, imagine how much worse for those who were incarcerated. We need to own what we did here, otherwise there's nothing to stop recurrence. Thank you very much for giving it your attention ❤️

@Mrs.TJTaylor

11 ай бұрын

Very good point. This was slavery at its worst, perpetrated by the Catholic Church.

@jacquikelly7929

9 ай бұрын

Conspiracy of silence comes to mind. A plotting Conspiracy from fellow Country men/woman. So sad. At least in their silence they know who they are with each other. Yuk

My grandfather was born and adopted out in one of these places, he never found out who his mother was, we found out his mothers surname was Martin and he was a twin born in 1915. His mother was still in the Magdalene laundries up until she died in 1952 I wish he’d been able to find her, I don’t know we’re my family are my former name was Creagh, x

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

I'm really sorry to hear that. Have you looked on jfmresearch.com ? They have a section on adoptions to guide people on how to find their heritage!

You tell me but how can anybody dare call themselves a Christian if they ignore or twist the Golden Rule? Didn't these people ever read THE 10 COMMANDMENTS!?

@catholiccrusader5328

11 ай бұрын

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@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

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@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

It's very difficult to understand how they got away with everything they did, ruling alongside the government 😕

I had no idea until I saw a drama about the Magdalene Laundries and I thought it could not be true at first until I found out it was indeed a true story - I had always thought all nuns were lovely good kind people as they are of course religious - I thought after, if that is Religion you can keep it! Where is mercy and kindness from these nuns, why were they so cruel? I don’t understand why.

@philomenahearn1717

10 ай бұрын

Having been to a catholic boarding school run by nuns I had my eyes open to them from the age of 7. I only met one good kind nun in the whole time I was there and she was “simple”….

my gosh, this is right out of today’s news!

I once saw a movie called The Magdalene Sisters and I was horrified at what I saw. I can’t believe the last laundry closed as late as 1996.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Isn't it just unbelievable! It just goes to show what can be happening in plain sight. Exposure is key, in my opinion. Thank you for watching and commenting!

@MsTeo91

7 ай бұрын

I remember watching the same when I Mum when I was 15 I’ve was traumatised the things those women had to endure was harrowing

Just when you said Irish Catholic Church, I had the thought about other Catholic countries. Gosh, makes you wonder how extreme it was in Rome? Absolutely tragic.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Doesn't it just. I dread to think...

@jacquikelly7929

9 ай бұрын

Er wasn't Rome responsible i:e RC Church.

Love the red hair ❤ From one to another

💔 Although I'm not surprised I'm speechless.. ..sending lots of love to all those victims out there 💕

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

You summed that up very well! Unfortunately a lot of our modern Irish History has that effect 😕

@Nancy-jo4xe

11 ай бұрын

I grew up in Germany so I'm not familiar with the Irish past but I'm aware of the bad Catholic reputation that's the reason why I'm not surprised..

I was shocked to discover that the Church of Ireland also ran an identical type of institution. The Dublin Female Penitentiary on North Circular Road was essentially a Protestant 'Magdalene' type laundry

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Yes, I believe it was the first female prison in Ireland and Britain, but was closed as a prison prior to Independence, although I'm not very familiar with the details!

@daveypayne5988

10 ай бұрын

@@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn yeah there isn't a lot of info on the place at all. my 3 x Great Grandfather was an employee and lived there until his death in 1857. Evidence on his role there varies. At some points he is a 'Sentry' at others a 'Book Keeper'.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

@daveypayne5988 it's such a shame we have so many blanks and so many discrepancies in our history.

It pains me so to watch and listen to these women. What the heck happened to the men ?

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Nothing 😕

@gailselkirksmith

11 ай бұрын

@@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn it would be good to find them and some how make them accountable. Many of course will be dead but listing those men would surely be appropriate

@denisemoore6134

10 ай бұрын

Men have always been allowed to have sex outside marriage, but never women. How does that work!!!

such a thoughtful tone in this video production-

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much.

Thankfully my parents stood by me in a time they were still open. The madalene Laundries & Song for a Raggy boy are films both worth looking at 🙏🙏🙏for all industrial Institutions 😢

The Catholic Church, ugh, the bad news never ends.

My mother was born illegitimate in 1920 in Cork. In 1927 she was taken off the street and placed into the convent at Sundays Well under the care of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. My mothers records have her down as deserted by her mother.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. The details on the records are indeed interesting... thank you for watching and sharing 🙏

Thank you.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

You are welcome.

Another great episode, Looking forward to next one. Well Done!

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thankfully things have changed in Ireland.But all these victims deserve justce 🙏🙏🙏

When I was a very troubled teenager it was the good priests who saved my life. It was some of those nuns who were demons. I owe my life to good and holy priests but those nuns of those days are another matter.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear someone stepped in to help you when you were vulnerable and in need.

Horrific, I have no words 😢this should never have happened and we need to make sure nothing like this ever happens again ❤

Had my son here in England in 1996. I was absolutely horrified to discover that very last laundry in Ireland closed in 1996 the very year that i had my own child

Interesting video.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. This is the first episode of a 6-part series. All 6 parts are now available.

I worked with ladies who where 65+ all victims of the magdaline laundry's it was a crying shame for them ladies as they were used and abused. The nuns where still around whilst the ladies moved into care by social services. Not all was there for being fallen woman quiet a few were dumped on the doorsteps as babies or young children. R I P them poor ladies may they rest in eternal peace 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

God bless your work❤

Excellent but sooo very sad 🤢🤢🤢

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

10 ай бұрын

Indeed. It is tragic. It needs to be known though. Thank you for watching and for sharing!

Heartbreaking for these lovely women. I pray for their healing.

How heartbreaking😢 Such cruelty, horrible abuse of power. These women and children deserve to be heard, deserve an apology, deserve compensation of every kind, deserve support to be able to survive such trauma. Thank you for acknowledging their horrendous abuse and sharing their story with us. 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS AND HAVE MERCY ON YOU AND YOURS ALWAYS, IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR, AMEN

God so heartbreaking that Goverment just wants too push it inder the carpet

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. With the survivors in urgent need of medical care to name just one need, I'm sure the last thing they required was ongoing neglect...

What a beautiful voice you have.

Terrific research!

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

good work

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, a worthy cause by all means 🙏

My catholic nan was born in Lambeth, London in 1891 and orphaned in 1901. On the 1901 census she is in Norwood Convent and orphanage and was a scholar. On the 1911 census she is in a Good Shepherd institution in London, occupation - a washerwoman. It broke my heart to realise this could be a Magdalen Laundry. My nan hinted to my aunt that something bad happened at a turkey farm she was working on in her late teens and the farmers son was locked into a room until she left. Was she raped? I can't find anything online to explain it and it haunts me.

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

I'm really sorry to hear that. If it had been in Ireland it certainly could have been the reason. I don't know about the Magdalene laundries in England though. They definitely existed but I have only studied the irish institutions.

@lynneedwards4538

11 ай бұрын

​@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn thank you for your reply. Hopefully, one day, the link to England will be made. My nan went on to marry and have four children. She died in her 88th year. Strong lady my nan. ❤

I grew up with the Latin Tridentine Mass and then my church changed the mass to the Novus Ordo so I stopped going to the church. I lost my faith for many years but later found out about Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, SSPX, and that I could again attend the Latin Mass. It was this holy Archbishop that helped me return to the Catholic Faith.

I was in Newtownforbes, I was in the boarding school, saw and knew all about what was going on, when I was 16 I was moved over to work in the laundry for about 6 months, to this day I know not why, l have never recovered, despite been returned to my former home there Our Lady’s boarding school n time to do my Inter Cert. Years later I went back to once again ask them WHY?no answer.I still have never got over the trauma and humiliation in front of all my school mates. thank you for you wonderful word, if I can help, in some way please let me know.😂

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Angela, thank you for sharing that here. By doing so you ARE helping show people how these places caused irreparable damage and shouldnever have been allowed. I am so sorry that happened to you and I suspect not knowing why is such a difficult thing 😔 unfortunately it seems it was not uncommon which is just horrible. Again I am truly sorry this happened to you and thank you so much for sharing ❤️

Never to be forgotten 🇮🇪☘️ Huge respect to all survivors. The church in Ireland has a lot to answer for😨 Originally from Finglas 🤍

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you Rhoda 🙏

Heart breaking

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for commenting Joan, yes absolutely heart breaking!

For the Irish constitution to say all are equal but then treat their mixed race children like shit

A drop in the ocean pàrt2

@ADropintheOcean-lr5qn

11 ай бұрын

Part 2. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ooqkyNysqdu3nto.html