Writer Joe Murtagh has revealed it was inspired by the real-life accounts of those who survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries
stars as Brady, a woman from the small, fictional Irish town of Kilkinure who wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house.Her investigation forces her to delve back into her own past and renew the search for her daughter Agnes, who she gave birth to as a teen while incarcerated in the town’s Magdalene Laundry.
Lorna Brady, played by Ruth Wilson, is forced to confront her past in a Magdalene Laundry after finding the corpse of a woman in her home The Magdalene laundries were institutions set up and operated by religious communities in Ireland, with the support of the state, initially forThis was later expanded to include unmarried mothers, abused girls, petty criminals and women with mental health conditions.
But the Catholic Church also ran a large number of laundries in ireland and it was these which would become the longest-surviving in Ireland. The last one closed in 1996.They are named after the biblical figure Mary Magdalene, a follower of Jesus who in earlier centuries was characterised as a reformed prostitute.How did the laundries operate?
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