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In reply to the discussion: When Kris Kristofferson believed and stood by Sinead [View all]Botany
(78,254 posts)"And maybe she's crazy and maybe she ain't
But so was Picasso and so were the saints
And she's never been partial to shackles or chains
She's too old for breaking and too young to tame"
Sinéad was well aware of the abuses that people suffered
@ the hands of the Catholic Church in Ireland such as "The
Laundry Women of Ireland." Where the Catholic Church kept
"fallen women" as slaves and blamed them for being humans
and not being perfect Catholics and hey if the nuns beat them
or they were turned out as sex slaves or if they died oh well
they bodies could just be buried on the grounds of the church
run prisons called the Magdalene Laundries.
From Wiki:
The Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, also known as Magdalene asylums, were institutions usually run by Roman Catholic orders, which operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries. They were run ostensibly to house "fallen women", an estimated 30,000 of whom were confined in these institutions in Ireland. In 1993, unmarked graves of 155 women were uncovered in the convent grounds of one of the laundries. This led to media revelations about the operations of the secretive institutions. A formal state apology was issued in 2013, and a £50 million compensation scheme for survivors was set up by the Irish Government. The religious orders which operated the laundries have rejected activist demands that they financially contribute to this programme
