Description
Book SynopsisThis book contends that Ireland's Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation). -- .
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: The politics of sexual knowledge: The origins of Ireland’s containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)
Part 1: The Magdalen Asylum and history: Mining the archive
Chapter 1 - The Magdalen in nineteenth-century Ireland
Chapter 2 - The Magdalen Asylum and the State in twentieth-century Ireland
Part 2 :The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: Memory and storytelling in contemporary Ireland
Chapter 3 - Remembering Ireland’s architecture of containment: “Telling” stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Stained Glass at Samhain
Chapter 4 - (Ef)facing Ireland’s Magdalen survivors: Visual representations and documentary testimony
Chapter 5 - The Magdalene Sisters: Film, fact, and fiction
Chapter 6 - Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: Art installations and cultural memory
Conclusion: History, cultural representation, . . . action?
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
