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Republic of shame : stories from Ireland's institutions for 'fallen women' / Caelainn Hogan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Penguin Books, 2020.Description: 288 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780241984123 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.78743209417 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ759.915
Summary: Caelainn Hogan has been talking to the survivors of Ireland's institutions for 'fallen women' and to the religious orders that operated them. She has visited the sites of the institutions and studied state documents that have much to reveal about how they operated. The result is a startling and often moving account of how an entire society colluded to operate a sort of gulag for unmarried mothers and their babies.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital General 941.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R17967X0499

Caelainn Hogan has been talking to the survivors of Ireland's institutions for 'fallen women' and to the religious orders that operated them. She has visited the sites of the institutions and studied state documents that have much to reveal about how they operated. The result is a startling and often moving account of how an entire society colluded to operate a sort of gulag for unmarried mothers and their babies.

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