Mary Jefferies

Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Limerick; St Joseph’s Mercy Orphanage, Clifden, Co Galway; Convent of Mercy, Spiddal, Co Galway; Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo; rule of silence; food deprivation; wore dark grey & black gown as a uniform; witnessed Guards returning Magdalenes who escaped; transfer between laundries; institutionalisation in older Magdalene women.

Sinéad

Sisters of The Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Limerick; Sisters of Charity Magdalene Laundry, Donnybrook; Sisters of Charity Magdalene Laundry, Peacock Lane, Cork; Legion of Mary Regina Coeli Hostel; St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Mallow, Co. Cork; escape attempt; transfers between laundries; institutionalisation in older Magdalene women; rule of silence.

Sara W.

Sisters of Charity Magdalene Laundry, Donnybrook; Sisters of Charity Magdalene Laundry, Peacock Lane, Cork; Séan Ross Abbey Mother and Baby Home, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary; Legion of Mary; escape attempt; returned to laundry by Gardaí; rule of silence; suicide attempt in laundry; transfer between laundries; auxiliary system; difficulty in accessing records; institutionalisation in older Magdalene women; Residential Institutions Redress Board; sexual assault.

Mary May

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundries, Seán MacDermott Street and High Park; St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home, Navan Road; St Joseph’s Industrial School, Kilkenny (Sisters of Charity); St Patrick’s Special School, Kells Road Kilkenny; St Joseph’s Industrial School, Fairyhouse, Clonmel; St. Joseph’s Industrial School, Artane; effects of institutionalisation; absence of supports for unmarried mothers; long-term effects of separation from family members; Regina Coeli Hostel; domestic violence; present-day attitudes of religious sisters to abuse in industrial schools; Residential Institutions Redress Board.

Kathleen R.

Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundries: Waterford, Sundays Well, Limerick; St. Dominick’s Industrial School for Girls; hunger strike; transfers between Magdalene Laundries; Traveller Community; St Joseph’s Industrial School, Greenmount; priests’ housekeepers in Magdalene Laundry; St Otteran’s Psychiatric Hospital; anti-psychotic medications; straitjackets; Cork City Gaol; fear of being re-incarcerated; Gardaí returning women and girls to laundries; inaccuracies in religious order records; deaths in Magdalene Laundries; end of life and burial practices; survivor complaints to religious orders; physical abuse in industrial schools; Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB); treatment of witnesses at RIRB; St Coleman’s Industrial School for Girls, Cobh, Rushbrook; Clifton Convalescent Home; Carriglea Psychiatric Hospital.

Nora Lynch

 St Joseph’s Industrial School, Clifden, Co Galway; Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Sundays Well, Cork; brainwashing of auxiliaries; interviewee refused to answer to house name; rule of silence; rebelling and questioning laundry regime; manufacture of scapulars in laundry; manufacture of dresses for local retailers; process to become Child of Mary; hunger striking; auxiliaries as part of regime; stigma of laundry and illegitimacy; Residential Institutions Redress Board; separation of friendships and alliances in laundry; self-education.

Doris

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge Magdalene Laundry, High Park, Drumcondra; Residential Institutions Redress Board; Sacred Heart Home, Drumcondra; non-acknowledgement of birthdays (in Sacred Heart Home); lack of religiosity because of experience in institutions; Sisters of Mercy Training Centre, Baggot Street; Beaumont Convalescent Home; emigration; adoption of certain children from home; return of adopted children to home; impact of institutionalisation on knowledge of the outside world; camaraderie between survivors; funeral and burial practices at High Park laundry; rule of silence; Ancient Order of Hibernians; Legion of Mary; separation from family through institutions; lack of birth certificate; withholding of information about family origins; lack of family medical history; inter-generational impact of lack of information; impact of institutionalisation on parenting.

Kathleen

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry, High Park, Drumcondra; death and burial practices of Sisters of Our Lady of Charity; Legion of Mary; Residential Institutions Redress Board; Section 28 (6) of Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002; An Grianán Training Centre, High Park; psychiatric assessments; threat of being sent from Industrial School to Magdalene Laundry as punishment; sexual abuse; Gardaí returning girls to High Park after escape; black habits (auxiliaries/consecrates) as part of regime; institutionalisation of black habits; Martanna House; All Hallows College; Aislinn Education Centre; stigma of unmarried motherhood and being in a laundry; self-education; survivor groups.

Angelina Mayfield

Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Magdalene Laundry, High Park, Drumcondra; Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Limerick; An Grianán Training Centre, High Park; St. Dominick’s Industrial School for Girls; Good Shepherd Marycrest Hostel, Limerick; St Michael’s Industrial School, Cappoquin; Waterford County Home; inter-generational incarceration in institutions; solitary confinement; sexual abuse; class hierarchies among religious sisters; psychiatric medications; institutionalisation; suicide; escape attempts; solitary confinement; food deprivation; Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB); non-conformity and rebelliousness; working in Magdalene Laundry for keep at Good Shepherd hostel; funerals at High Park Convent; homelessness; emigration; working as a dominatrix; alter-ego as means of coping; vaccine trials; concern for vulnerable people and animals; family estrangement due to industrial schools and laundries; Section 28 (6) of Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002.

Mary

St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home; Philomena’s Convent, Stillorgan; St Mary’s Industrial School, Lakelands, Sandymount; Our Lady of Charity of Refuge Magdalene Laundry, Gloucester Street; Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Limerick; Residential Institutions Redress Board; Family Group Home, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal; intergenerational institutionalisation; rebelling; illegitimacy; emigration.

Evelyn

High Park Magdalene Laundry; High Park Industrial School; Sisters of Our Lady of Charity; sexual abuse; social services; physical punishment; emigration; forced informal adoption within family; intergenerational effects of childhood abuse.

Bernadette and Francis Murphy

Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, New Ross, Co. Wexford; Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Sundays Well; survivor support groups; emigration; Residential Institutions Redress Board; friendships between survivors; linen, embroidery and sewing industry in laundry; institutionalised survivors; lack of contact with family in laundry; Child of Mary; dowries for religious sisters; lack of socialisation; post traumatic stress disorder.

Mary Smith

Clonakilty Industrial School; St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Mallow, Co. Cork; family separation; rape and sexual abuse; Residential Institutions Redress Board; Sacred Heart Mother and Baby Home, Bessborough, Cork; St. Joseph’s Industrial School, Greenmount, St. Patrick’s Industrial School, Upton; homelessness; St Stephen’s Psychiatric Hospital, Sarsfields Court, Cork; Queen of Angels School, Cork.

Pippa Flanagan

St. Bridget’s Industrial School for girls, Loughrea, Co. Galway; physical abuse; rape and sexual abuse; suicide and self-harm; depression; punishment of child because mother could not pay for keep in industrial school; denial of contact with fellow survivors after release from laundry; alcoholism; marital breakdown; emigration; lack of birth certificate; Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB); difficulties with solicitors at RIRB; Magdalen Commission.

Kate O'Sullivan

Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry, Sundays Well; Residential Institutions Redress Board; Inter-departmental Committee on the Magdalene Laundries;  Magdalene Restorative Justice Scheme; lack of birth certificate; missing records/destruction of records.

Margaret Burke

Sisters of Mercy Magdalene Laundry, Galway; St Ann’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Lenaboy, Co Galway; inaccuracies with birth certificates and lack of acknowledgement of birthdays; survivor views on lack of education; isolation from Industrial School friends after departure; St Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Salthill, Co Galway; distance among siblings due to separation in Industrial Schools; Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB); Section 28 (6) of Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002; St Joseph’s Workhouse, Ennis; St Joseph’s County Home, Ennis; lack of financial autonomy (County Home); Mercy Magdalene Laundry, Galway; auxiliaries exercising discipline; physical abuse; hair-cutting; system of family members signing girls out of laundry; funeral practices in Magdalene Laundries; rule of silence; escape from Industrial School; differences between Industrial School and Magdalene Laundry; religious sisters controlling money; emigration to escape feeling of entrapment in Ireland; member of British Army; depression; changing one’s name; suicide attempt; self-education; literacy issues; difficulty sharing Magdalene experiences with family; stigma of illegitimacy; depression; suicide; love of animals; survivor support groups; difficulties with solicitors at RIRB; Inter-Departmental Committee to establish the facts of State involvement with the Magdalen Laundries; Magdalene redress scheme; health issues.