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Do penance or perish [electronic resource] : Magdalen asylums in Ireland / Frances Finnegan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finnegan, Frances.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Institutional care--Ireland--History.
- Women.
- Prostitutes--Rehabilitation--Ireland--History.
- Prostitutes.
- Church work with prostitutes--Ireland--History.
- Church work with prostitutes.
- Church work with prostitutes--Catholic Church.
- Unmarried mothers--Institutional care--Ireland--History.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Reformatories for women--Ireland--History.
- Reformatories for women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 256 p., [16]p. of plates) : ill., ports.
- Other Title:
- Do penance or perish
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Frances Finnegan traces the history of the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, homes founded in the 19th century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform, but which later received unwed mothers, wayward girls & the mentally retarded, all of them put to work as forced labour in church-run laundries.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Piltown, Ireland: Congrave Press, 2001.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199849901 (ebook) :
- 0199849900 (ebook) :
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