The below resources are intended to support students in carrying out their own research, in addition to the material provided in our Guidebook for teachers and accompanying teaching resources.

Websites

Justice for Magdalenes Research, Educational Resources: http://jfmresearch.com/educational-resources/

Waterford Memories Project (Waterford Institute of Technology) https://www.waterfordmemories.com/our-projects

TrueTube, The Magdalenes https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/magdalenes

‘Breaking the Rule of Silence’ by Evelyn Glynn http://www.magdalenelaundrylimerick.com/home.html

Justice for Magdalenes Research, Oral History Project http://jfmresearch.com/home/oralhistoryproject/

Atlas of Lost Rooms http://atlasoflostrooms.com

The Clann Project http://clannproject.org

Cope Galway Booklet, ‘The Magdalene Women of Galway’ https://www.copegalway.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Magdalen-Women-of-Galway-BookletEd2.pdf

Survivor testimonies

The Journal.ie	Mary Harney shares her personal story on a day where the fate of records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes was debated on the Dáil floor.
The Journal.ie	‘I’m still angry’: Survivors to discuss how Magdalene Laundries should be remembered
The Journal.ie	‘The door to her cell was bolted’: Magdalene survivor takes case against Ireland to UN
The Irish Times	The life-long prisoners of State-funded, church-run institutions
The Irish Times	Woman takes challenge over parts of mother and baby homes report
The Irish Times	Deleted testimony from mother and baby home survivors can be recovered
The Irish Times	PETER PALLAS, Sion Hill Court, Drumcondra. Testimony from survivor
The Irish Times	MARY GAFFNEY’s story Irish Times
The Irish Times	Mary Merritt’s Story Irish times
The Irish Times	Abuse commission told nun ‘vilified’
The Irish Examiner	Christina Noble speaks publically about son being taken from her in mother and baby home
The Irish Examiner	Mary O’Shea was born in Bessborough in 1935
BBC News	Two survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries have spoken of their experiences.
BBC News	Magdalene Laundries victim Mary Cavner to get compensation
Independent.ie	Magdalene survivor tells of beatings and rape March 12 2018
Independent.ie	Magdalene survivor tells of beatings and rape
RTE.ie	Deletion of witness recordings at Mother and Baby Homes Commission defended (proof deletion violation)
RTE.ie	The survivors of Northern Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes
RTE.ie	Survivor says report raises more questions on homes
RTE.ie	Philomena Lee has said the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes has brought back “so many memories”.
RTE.ie	‘I wasn’t even 15. I hadn’t even kissed a boy’ – A Magdalene survivor’s story
The New York TImes	These Women Survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. They’re Ready to Talk.

Mother and Baby Homes-related news coverage

Irish Examiner	Calls for probes into Galway mother and baby home
Irish Examiner	Terms of mother-and-baby homes inquiry to be revealed today
Irish Examiner	Dáil begins mother-and-baby homes inquiry process
Irish Examiner	Research suggests five women buried at Tuam Mother and Baby home
Irish Examiner	Commission of Inquiry ‘excludes 30,000 mothers and children’, say campaigners
Irish Examiner	Acting Taoiseach urged to apologise to Mother and Baby home survivors
Irish Examiner	Survivors release list of deaths at Castlepollard Mother and Baby home
Irish Examiner	Elderly Mother and Baby home survivors demand immediate apology and redress
Irish Examiner	Govt rejects immediate redress for children from mother and baby homes
Irish Examiner	Coalition of Mother And Baby Home Survivors demands meeting with Taoiseach
Irish Examiner	Coalition of Mother and Baby home Survivors: Up to 7000 babies buried across the country
Irish Examiner	Rights campaigner quits ‘cynical’ mother and baby homes forum
Irish Examiner	Tusla silence on evidence of child graves
Irish Examiner	Order puts second mother and baby home up for sale
Irish Examiner	Mother and Baby Homes: We must endeavour to learn and atone, says Varadkar
Irish Examiner	Commission should not ‘hide away’ findings of report into Mother and Baby Homes, says Catherine Corless
Irish Examiner	No surveys planned at former Mother and Baby Home in Cork
Irish Examiner	Cork County Mayor ‘deeply sorry’ for Bessborough victims
Irish Examiner	Group wants inquests for every child at Tuam
Irish Examiner	European Commission to investigate mother and baby homes
Irish Examiner	Mother and Baby Homes: The numbers which underscore society’s failure
Irish Examiner	Remembering the names of children who died in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home
Irish Examiner	People are finally waking up’: Noelle Brown on the Abbey Theatre’s mother and baby homes project
Irish Examiner Twitter	In memory of the children who died in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home.
BBC News	Irish mother and baby homes: Timeline of controversy
RTE.ie	The hurt around mother-and-baby home legislation (law aspect)
RTE.ie	Public outcry led to mother-and-baby homes investigation
RTE.ie	Councils issue apologies over mother-and-baby homes
RTE.ie	Medical research on children at mother-and-baby homes
RTE.ie	Unanswered questions for mother-and-baby home survivors
RTE.ie	UN asked to intervene on mother-and-baby homes
RTE.ie	Taoiseach to give State apology to mother and baby home survivors
The Irish Times	Deleted testimony from mother and baby home survivors can be recovered
The Irish Times	Oral hearing before decision on housing on grounds of former Mother and Baby Home
The Irish Times	Mother and baby homes: Call for UN to establish ‘wider independent investigation’ (legal aspect)

Magdalene Laundries-related news coverage

History.com	How Ireland Turned ‘Fallen Women’ Into Slaves.
Justice for Magdalenes Research	About the Magdalene Laundries.
The Journal.ie	UN criticises government for failure to prosecute abuse perpetrators in Magdalene Laundries.
The Journal.ie	Magdalene Laundries: ‘Memorial needed for women detained under heartless, vicious regime’.
The Journal.ie	Just one maximum compensation pay-out in Magdalene scheme since expansion.

Industrial Schools-related news coverage

Caranua.ie	Timeline of Industrial Schools
The Irish Examiner	Fionna Fox: Sealing records only prolongs our shame
The Irish Examiner	Stolen childhoods and blighted lives – child abuse in industrial schools
RTE.ie	Children in industrial schools ‘poor and badly nourished’
RTE.ie	Waiting list for industrial schools.
RTE.ie	Land Without God – examining the legacy of Institutional abuse
RTE.ie	Apology for Institutional Child Abuse – video
RTE.ie	The Whistle-blower, article Mary Raftery documentary series
The Connacht Tribute	Transfer of ownership of Lenaboy Castle to Council still up in the air
The Journal.ie	Catherine Corless is calling for a full investigation into a former Sisters of Mercy orphanage in Galway
Advertiser.ie	Child sex abuse was chronic in Galway institution, report reveals
The Irish Times	Origins of industrial schools
The Irish Times	Record of industrial schools
The Irish Times	Inquiry into industrial schools to resume
The Irish Times	We must never forget terror of industrial schools Irish Times Aug 6 2013
The Irish Times	How statistics tell the story of children in industrial schools
The Irish Times	Fintan O’Toole: We are a nation of historical vandals on national archiving
The Irish Times	Why the State had such a big problem with unmarried mothers 19 Jan 2021
The Irish Times	Call for grounds of former orphanage in Galway to be investigated
Catherine Connolly	Finally, and after a very long campaign, the former Industrial School in Taylor’s Hill, Galway and known as Lenaboy is to be handed over to the people of Galway

Adoption-related news coverage

The Irish Times	‘The social worker said: Were two seconds of pleasure worth it for all this?’ Women who housed single pregnant girls in the 1970s and 1980s share their experiences
The Irish Times	Department officials refused to share illegal adoption files with Ministers, Dáil told
The Irish Times	Mother and baby home adoptions may have been legal but that does not make them right
The Irish Times	Up to 20,000 adoption files could relate to irregular birth registrations– report
The Irish Times	Diarmaid Ferriter: Illegally adopted being left without identity
The Irish Times	‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take in
The Irish Times	Sheila Shelton was adopted by a couple in the US from a Tipperary mother and baby home Irish Times
The Irish Times	Illegal adoptions: Government’s next step fraught with difficulty
The Irish Times	Adopted people suing St Patrick’s Guild claim ‘kidnapping’, ‘forgery’
The Gloss	A History of Shame: The Truth Behind Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Revealed
RTE.ie	Little evidence children forcibly taken from mothers, commission finds RTE
Independant	Births not registered and forged adoption signatures at mother and baby homes. Survivor tells of being adopted illegally in 1967
The Journal.ie	Fionn Davenport adoption from mother and baby home

Podcasts and Videos

RTE.ie	The Runners – Documentary on RTE Radio 1
RTE.ie	Poetry Programme preview – poems about the Mother and Baby Homes
Mixcloud	Siobhan speaks with Catherine Corless on Award and Lenaboy Castle infant fatalities
Abbey Theathre.ie	The national theatre of Ireland’s response to the report on Mother and Baby Institutions
Twitter	The work of Catherine Corless brought to light 796 children’s death certs relating to the home in Tuam. Here are all of their names #CBLive
YouTube	Magdalene Laundries: Our World, BBC News Channel 27-09-14 (survivor testimony)
YouTube	“The nightmares will always be there”: These Magdalene survivors tell their personal stories
YouTube	The Forgotten Maggies Official Documentary (52 min) Magdalene Laundries
YouTube	Claire Byrne Live – Tuam Mother-And-Baby Home (6/3/17)
YouTube	Noelle Brown, Bessborough Mother and Baby Home Survivor
YouTube	Irish Mother & Baby Home survivors tell their story.
YouTube	9,000 babies died in Ireland’s mother and baby homes
YouTube	Dublin Honours Magdalene’s

Poetry inspired by Irelands historic abuses

Poetry Foundation.org	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – The Slave Mother
YouTube	Breeda Murphy – You Took Away my Name

Breeda Murphy · You Took Away My Name

You took away my name You took away my identity In a landscape full of shame There’s no place left for dignity To scrub away the sins You call me penitent A …

YouTube

Connie Roberts – Sunday’s Well: Reimagining of the Irish Ballad Weile Weile Weile

Sunday’s Well: A Reimagining of the Irish Ballad Weile Weile Waile

Sunday’s Well: St. Finbarr’s Industrial School, in Sunday’s Well, Cork, Ireland. There was also a Magdalen Laundry attached.* Bessborough: Mother & Baby…