Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished 'Fallen Women' and Their Children

by Caelainn Hogan

Book Overview

Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of "fallen women." In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude. In the mother-and-baby homes, women who had become pregnant out of wedlock were hidden, and in most cases their babies were adopted--sometimes illegally. Mortality rates in these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241984122
• ISBN13: 9780241984123
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"