Set in 1920’s England, Charlotte Jones’s Airswimming, playing until Feb. 3 at the Irish Rep, is based on the true story of two women (Miss Kitson and Miss Baker), who have been incarce…
W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre in association with Fallen Angel Theatre Company by Charlotte Jones directed by John Keating January 9 – February 17, 2013 Set in 1920’s England, Charlotte Jones’s Airswimming is based on the true story of two women (Miss Kitson and Miss Baker), who have been incarcerated in a hospital for the […]
Photos from Magdalene Laundries give insight into the homes, also known as Magdalene asylums, places for women and children where untold horrors were said to have taken place.
Katie Anderson and Annamarie MacLeod photo by Lance Huntley
Lately I have spent more and more time looking at photographs. I have also, as you might have noticed, started to spend more time making my own. I don’t view my own pictures as art, but would rathe…
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Hospital for the Negro Insane 2014
Comme beaucoup d’entre nous, j’ai été choquée par la disparition brutale de cette grande dame, que demeure Pina Baush, que j’avais eu l’occasion de voir à la Filature de Mulhouse pour Kontatkhof.
Life changed for women after World War II, particularly in career opportunities. More women went to work and many moved into male-dominated roles.
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The Justice for Magdalenes group is gearing up to sue the State over the hundreds of women who died and were buried in mass — and often unmarked — graves all over the country.
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St. Dymphna Virgin and martyr. The earliest historical account of the veneration of St. Dymphna dates from the middle of the thirteenth century. Under Bishop Guy I of Cambrai (1238-47), Pierre, a canon of the church of Saint Aubert at Cambrai, wrote a “Vita” of the saint, from which we learn that she had been […]
These haunting images of abandoned hospitals across Italy are not one for the faint hearted. Taken in top secret locations, both of the hospitals featured in the photographs are Italian Asylums - otherwise known as Manicomios - which were used as mental hospitals.
Around 30,000 women and girls experienced slave-like conditions in asylums called Magdalene laundries. The Irish government admitted complicity. DW talks to the co-founder of Justice for Magdalene, who's demanding more.
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