Collection of interview transcripts and audio recordings from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History that was led by Dr Katherine O'Donnell, Director of the Women's Studies Centre at University College Dublin. The project was a Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Project and was funded by the Irish Research Council. The overall objective was to contribute towards a better understanding of the system of Magdalene Laundries that existed in Ireland in the twentieth century through the gathering and study of testimonies from people who are directly or indirectly related to these institutions.
The project collected 80 oral histories from 91 interviewees, including survivors who worked and lived in the Magdalene Laundries, as well as relatives, members of the Religious Orders, regular visitors and anyone else who had a story to tell that relates to these institutions.
The cover image for this collection is by Fiona Ward.
Katherine O'Donnell; Sinead Pembroke; Claire McGettrick; Irish Qualitative Data Archive. This collection is publicly available under a CC-BY-NC license.
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