{"id":428151,"date":"2026-05-02T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428151\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:01:19","slug":"the-truth-about-irelands-magdalene-laundries-women-are-still-dying-there-as-late-as-2024-i-found-death-notices-for-women-whose-addresses-were-given-as-former-laundries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/428151\/","title":{"rendered":"The truth about Ireland\u2019s Magdalene laundries: \u2018Women are still dying there. As late as 2024, I found death notices for women whose addresses were given as former laundries\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Despite being told many times, the story of the Magdalene laundries remains mired in myth, says author Louise Brangan, whose new book uncovers what really happened in the institutions \u2013 and the forgotten women who lived there\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777698079_609_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\"> Louise Brangan, Author of The Fallen <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brigid was 12 when she was removed from her west of Ireland home in the 1940s. She was told she was being taken away because she had been skipping school. In truth, her casual approach to class attendance was never the real reason she was cast out of society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Brigid had been born outside of marriage \u2013 she was illegitimate. Illegitimacy is an ugly word, but it was a legal category assigned at birth until 1988 in Ireland. For much of the 20th century, the Government counted the number of illegitimate babies and tracked their year-on-year growth or decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being told many times, the story of the Magdalene laundries remains mired in myth, says author Louise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-428151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}