Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the state's duty to protect
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2011Author
O'Rourke, Maeve
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O'Rourke, Maeve. (2011). Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and the state's duty to protect. Hibernian Law Journal, 10, 200-237.
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Abstract
Irish society has recently begun to come to terms with a legacy of systemic
physical, sexual and emotional maltreatment of children from the 1930s to
the 1970s in State-funded, Catholic Church-run Industrial and Reformatory
Schools. Soon after the findings from a nine-year official inquiry into
institutional child abuse were released in Ireland in May 2009,1 questions
began to surface as to why the Magdalene Laundries had not been covered
by the inquiry, nor their survivors compensated by the Residential
Institutions Redress Board, set up by the government in 2002.2