The Magdalene Sisters- Part 1 of 10

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

Written and directed by Peter Mullan and starring Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff, and Geraldine McEwan, The Magdalene Sisters is based on true events depicted in the documentary, Sex in a Cold Climate. Mullan's film tells the story of three Dublin women in 1964, fictional composites of real cases. Abandoned by society and cast out by their families for crimes they did not commit, these women found themselves stripped of their liberty and dignity and condemned to indefinite sentences of manual labor. Within the church-run Magdalene Laundries, they were forced into institutional servitude in order to cleanse themselves of the "sins" of which they had been accused. The Magdalene Laundries were institutions sponsored and maintained by the Catholic Church in Ireland for the incarceration of young women thought to be a moral danger to themselves and others - unmarried mothers or simply girls who were considered hussies and whores, no better than they should be. With the legal consent of their fathers, they were imprisoned and made to work for no pay in imitation of Mary Magdalene in laundries, always exploited and in many cases sexually abused. The laundries existed until the 1970s, but the very last did not close until 1996. Peter Mullan has remarked that the film was initially made because victims of Magdalene Asylums had received no closure in the form of recognition, compensation, or apology, and many remained lifelong devout Catholics. Former Magdalen inmate Mary-Jo McDonagh told Mullan that the reality of the Magdalene Asylums was much worse than depicted in the film. ~Taken in part from Wikipedia and a review for the Guardian by Peter Bradshaw

Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSZ9i9NaUU4

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[soar1111]

@Tazza17 never forget this was the roman decapitation of a once and still to this day amazing race of people, during the roman empire they never made it to éire, such was the fear of this land, 'the land of gods' they used to call it. once they got hold in england it was only a matter of time for this place to fall, also never forget the first english invasion of ireland was ordered by rome because the irish were not being catholic enough for them. so its not the people, its whatever is in rome!

[Tazza17]

@FridaLaReina On the other hand though, all religions have corrupt parts to them. It is not necessarily the religion itself that is fucked up, it's the people.

[Rhed009]

I am proud for my country - Czech Republic - the most atheistic country in Europe.

[soar1111]

@jrmetmoi yes but the trick was they converted the Irish to this religion got them worshiping / brainwashed this new way for over a thousand years, then setup all these institutions and started to turn the screws, they fuckin destroyed Ireland in ways you could never imagine, responsible for the first holocaust that happened in western europe too, no not the jewish one, the Irish one, referred to as 'the famine' there was no famine here, go to irishholocaust dot o r g, are you living n ireland?

[jrmetmoi]

@soar1111 It can't be Rome, or just Rome. Whatever Rome set in motion, it's still up to the Irish people themselves to sort out their own country and run their own country. Revolutions have happened before in other countries and they could have even revolted against the Catholic Church's presence in Ireland or had a separation of the church and state like certain other countries in the West but they decided not to. It can't be all about Rome only.

[soar1111]

@Tazza17 whatever st patrick is, really is anyones guess. to give you an idea of the change christanity brought with a male deity. under Brehon Law the female was held in such high regard in Irish society that if the male could not bring her to orgasm, she was entitled to have a divorce. when christanity took hold and a thousand years later plus a bit more, in male dominated ireland, a male was entitled to rape his female cousin and the female was sent to a religious workshop to be further raped

[soar1111]

@Tazza17 - that's actually a bullshit statement, before christianity came to éire / ireland, the Irish had a female deity, Danú daughter of Ernmas, who also had three daughters Ériu, Banba and Fódla, Ireland became know as Ériu after the fall of the Tuatha Dé Danann at the hands of the Milesians, so from all the ancient ways and these new rulers Brehon Law was the accepted governing system that existed in ireland up until, st patricks conquest of ireland and the arrival of christianity,

[TudorRose1485]

The worst thing is, these institutes were only shut down in the nineties, it's worrying that it went on for so long. They called the girls "Maggies" because of Mary Magdalene..

[jrmetmoi]

@Mobee211 They're no better than men who do honor killings against women in their own famailes as it's about the same, for lack of a better word, 'principle'.

[jrmetmoi]

@Flamorgan Great God! I live in the UK and even I never heard about that. That's horrible, Dark Ages horrible.