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Irish government releases enslaved Magdalene women

Brittany Murdock, Staff Writer February 22, 2013

For years, select women in Ireland have been banished by their government to workhouses — or laundries — operated by Catholic nuns. While living in the Magdalene Laundries, female residents endured...

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