Oral history interview with key informant Pat Logue from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Pat’s grandmother was matron of Bedford Row maternity hospital. The laundry from the hospital was cleaned in the Good Shepherd laundry. As
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history with Magdalene Laundry survivor Lucy* from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. This interview is from the larger collection Magdalene Oral History collection that is archived at the Irish Qualitative Data Archive (see
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history interview with key informant Pat O’Byrne from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Pat grew up in a large family and lived close to the Good Shepherd Institution. As a child during the late 1960s he served Mass in the G
Emigration | Institutionalisation | Mother and baby homes
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Oral history interview with key informant Trevor Heaney from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Trevor was employed in the Good Shepherd Laundry in the mid-1970s as a maintenance man. Through his work he got to know many of the wo
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history interview with activist John Gilligan from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Councillor John Gilligan successfully campaigned to have the names of the women who died while in the care of the Good Shepherds recorded o
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history interview with key informant Paul O’Shaughnessy from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Paul is a caretaker in Limerick School of Art and Design. Here he describes his memories and impressions of the building when th
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history interview with key informant Anne Culhane from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Anne’s career as a nurse in Croom Hospital and subsequent career as a librarian in Limerick School of Art and Design brought her in con
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history interview with key informant Michael Cowhey from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Michael was a pupil in the Crescent College in Limerick. Each Christmas the pupils performed an opera for the Good Shepherd residents
Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births | Magdalene laundries
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Oral history interview with key informant John Kennedy from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. John Kennedy has a long connection with the Good Shepherds in Limerick. His family were, for many generations, involved with the Good S
Disabilities | Mother and baby homes | Illegitimate births
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Oral history interview with key informant Mary O’Mara from the research project Magdalene Institutions: Recording an Oral and Archival History. Mary O'Mara lives in Clare Street and for many years was a Girl Guide Leader. Through this work she came in contact with children from t
Adoption | Institutionalisation | Mother and baby homes
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