Foreword: Memory, violence, and the body – Marianne Hirsch
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral
state – Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie Pine
Part I Witnessing and remembering: Magdalen Laundries
1 Public performance and reclaiming space: Waterford's Magdalen
Laundry – Jennifer O’Mahoney, Kate McCarthy, and Jonathan
Culleton
2 ‘A document of truth?’ Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the
McAleese Report – Lucy Simpson-Kilbane
3 Unremembered in life and death: funeral and burial practices in
Ireland's Magdalen Laundries – Nathalie Sebbane
4 Witnessing: testimonial knowledge as ongoing memory transmission
– Audrey Rousseau
5 Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed in Brazil: resonances and
reflections – Alinne Fernandes
Part II Parallel histories: then and now
6 From Tuam to Birmingham: a case study of children’s homes in
Ireland and the UK – Sarah-Anne Buckley and Lorraine Grimes
7 Reflections on Ireland’s ‘home(s)’: shame, stigma, and
grievability – Clara Fischer
8 ‘He’d never have gotten a job like that if he ’ d stayed with me’
– the uneasy comedy of Philomena – Mary McGill
9 ‘That stuff is FOI-able … and it could be used against us if
someone takes a case’: unlawful adoption in the past and the
present – how much has changed? – Conall Ó Fátharta
10 Contract, the state, and the Magdalene Laundries – Máiréad
Enright
11 Who is protecting who and what? The Irish state and the death of
women who sell sex: a historical and contemporary analysis – Eilís
Ward
12 Homing in on the states we are in – Speaking of IMELDA
13 Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres: our past and our present –
Vukasín Nedeljkovic
Index
Miriam Haughton is Director of Postgraduate Studies in Drama,
Theatre and Performance at NUI Galway
Mary McAuliffe is Assistant Professor in Gender Studies at
University College Dublin
Emilie Pine is Professor of Modern Drama at University College
Dublin
‘..an absorbing and insightful examination of one of the most
traumatic and shameful legacies of Ireland's past… an invaluable
resource for anyone interested in understanding how such
institutions came into being
and the harm they wreaked on those women who spent time in
them.’
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