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Author Finnegan, Frances

Title Do penance or perish : Magdalen asylums in Ireland / Frances Finnegan
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Contents 1. Patented villains -- 2. Never free from their espionage -- 3. The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, Limerick -- 4. A citadel of piety -- 5 The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, New Ross -- 6. Do penance or perish -- 7. The Good Shepherd Magdalen Asylum, Cork (part 2)
Summary Frances Finnegan traces the history of the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, homes founded in the 19th century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform, but which later received unwed mothers, wayward girls & the mentally retarded, all of them put to work as forced labour in church-run laundries
Notes Originally published: Piltown, Ireland: Congrave Press, 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History
Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation -- Ireland -- History
Church work with prostitutes -- Ireland -- History
Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church.
Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- Ireland -- History
Reformatories for women -- Ireland -- History
Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church
Church work with prostitutes
Prostitutes -- Rehabilitation
Reformatories for women
Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care
Women -- Institutional care
Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199849901
0199849900
9780195174601
0195174607