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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Goretti Horgan: Changing women's lives in Ireland (Part 1)

Goretti Horgan: Changing women's lives in Ireland (Part 1): "While the price of sex within marriage was high, the penalty for sex outside marriage was exorbitant. If a working class woman became pregnant outside marriage, she had to leave her home in disgrace and go to one of the Magdalen Laundries or “Good Shepherd” convents. Her parents had no choice but to turn her out. Any parents who tried to stand by their daughters had the priest hammering at the door, telling them it was their Christian duty to turn their back on their child"?

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