Discuss the importance of testimony, or personal stories of the survivors (of Industrial Schools, Magdalen Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes), in calling attention to the histories of state- and church-supported gender oppression in Irish society.
Description Drawing upon Lectures 8 (Professor Kearns) and Lecture 9 (Professor Till), and the reading from Catherine Cox (2018), discuss an historical institution of incarceration in Ireland as a form of structural and systemic injustice. This may include Workhouses, Asylums for Penitent Women/Magdalen Laundries, Foundling Hospitals/Mother and Baby Homes. Be sure to discuss how the […]