Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment
by James M. Smith
RESOURCES FOR FURTHER STUDY
Literature
Bruen, Ken. The Magdalen Martyrs. Dingle: Brandon, 2003.
(O’Neill Stacks PR6052.R785 M34 2003)
Burke Brogan, Patricia. Eclipsed. Galway: Salmon Publishing, 1994.
(O’Neill Stacks PR6052.R54 E255x 1994)
- - - - -. Stained Glass at Samhain. Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare: Salmon, 2003.
(O’Neill Stacks PR6052.R528 S73 2003)
Conlon-McKenna, Marita. The Magdalen. London: Bantam Books, 1999.
Media Representations
Les Blanchisseuses De Magdalen. Une Film du Nicolas Glimois et Christophe Weber.
Produced by Arnaud Hanelin. France 3/Sunset Preste. 1998. [Available in O’Neill
Media Center as Convents of Shame, Marathon International Video, also:
http://www.marathon.fr]
“The Magdalen Laundries.” 60 Minutes. Narr. Steve Croft. Assoc. Prod. Kay Lim.
Prod. L. Franklin Devine. CBS News. New York. 3 Jan. 1999.
The Magdalene Sisters. Dir. Peter Mullan. Prod. Francis Higson. Momentum
Pictures/PFP Films, 2002. (O’Neill Media Center Stacks PN1993.5.I73 M34)
Sinners. Produced by Alan Moloney. Directed by Aisling Walsh. Parallel Productions/BBC
Northern Ireland Drama. 26 March, 2002.
Washing Away the Stain. Narr. Louise Beattie. Dir. Sarah Barclay and Andrea Miller. Ser.
Prod. May Miller. B.B.C. Scotland. 16 Aug. 1993.
Witness: Sex in a Cold Climate. Narr. Dervla Kirwan. Prod. Steve Humphries. Testimony
Films for Channel 4. Great Britain. 16 Mar. 1998.
Secondary Material:
Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler. “'Our Nuns Are Not a Nation': Politicizing the Convent
in Irish Literature and Film.” Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish
Studies 41, 1&2 (Spring/Summer, 2006): 9-39.
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BOSTON COLLEGE LIBRARIES
Finnegan, Francis. Do Penance or Perish: A Study of Magdalen Asylums in Ireland.
Piltown, Co. Kilkenny: Congrave Press, 2001. (O’Neill Stacks HV9650.3 .F56
2001)
Luddy, Maria. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century Ireland. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995. (O’Neill Stacks HV541 .L83 1995)
Raftery, Mary and Eoin O’Sullivan. 1999. Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of
Ireland's Industrial Schools. Dublin: New Island Books. (O’Neill Stacks
HV9148.A5 R33 2001)
Smith, James M. “The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland’s
Containment Culture and ‘The Carrigan Report’ (1931).” The Journal of the
History of Sexuality 13, 2 (April 2004): 208–33.
- - - - -. “The Magdalene Sisters: Evidence, Testimony … Action?” Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society 32.2 (Winter 2007):431-58.
- - - - -. Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment.
South Bend, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. (O’Neill Stacks
HV1448 .I73 S65 2007)
Web Resources:
Diane Fenster’s Art Installation, “Secrets of the Magdalen Laundries”:
http://www.dianefenster.com/secrets.html
Justice For Magdalenes: http://www.magdalenelaundries.com/
Mari Steeds’s “Magdalen Story’: http://www.netreach.net/~steed/magdalen.html
Brendan Rapple
Bibliographer for English
rappleb@bc.edu
617-552-4482
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