Images from Abandoned Ireland: Inside a Magdalene Laundry
Recently on this blog, Global Human Rights fellow Maeve O’Rourke, LLM ’10, wrote about Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, where as many as tens of thousands of women and girls were forced to live and work for the commercial benefit of four orders of Catholic nuns. Today, thanks to photographer Tarquin Blake, we’re posting some striking images of The Good Shepherd Convent/Magdalene Asylum, which operated a residential laundry until the late 1970s.
A big thanks to Tarquin for letting us post his images. Check out his project, Abandoned Ireland, here.
