223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 24 cm
Contents
Foreword / Aodhan Madden -- Author's note -- Prologue -- 1. Daddy's girl -- 2. School from hell -- 3. A Christmas tear -- 4. Life inside a psychiatric hospital -- 5. Drugged to the eyeballs -- 6. Slaving in the Magdalen Laundry -- 7. My beautiful baby, Annie -- 8. Free at last? -- 9. The aftermath -- 10. Ireland's forgotten women -- 11. If we were nothing in life, we were worth even less in death -- 12. The continuing fight -- Epilogue. The reason why -- Appendix
Summary
The infamous Magdalen Laundries operated for over eight decades. Thousands of young Irish girls were incarcerated in homes run by nuns and subjected to punishing work routines. Many were beaten and sexually abused. Kathy O'Bierne survived and has chosen to tell her story in the hope that she can help other victims
Notes
"Inside the hell of Ireland's notorious Magdalen Sisters' laundries"--Cover
