
Republic of Shame
''At least in The Handmaid''s Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here'' Margaret Atwood
''[A] furious, necessary book'' Sinéad Gleeson
Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert 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 ...
''At least in The Handmaid''s Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here'' Margaret Atwood
''[A] furious, necessary book'' Sinéad Gleeson
Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert 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 ...