ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 1月17日 05時12分

The last of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries will soon be demolished and replaced by a budget hotel and a student residence — if Dublin's city council has its way. The Gloucester Street laundry was one of around a dozen such businesses run by Roman Catholic nuns and staffed by unpaid inmates who were given to the nuns to hide them away. (Most of them were orphan girls or young women who'd become pregnant outside marriage or whose families could not or would not support them.) It took in its last new inmate — transferred from a psychiatric hospital — as recently as 1995, then closed the next year. The work in these walled-off institutions was backbreaking and often involved handling dangerous chemicals. Mortality rates were high. Of those who died, many were buried in communal graves, sometimes unmarked and unrecorded. Rocked by scandals, the Roman Catholic Church has lost much of its former authority in Ireland. Laundries, industrial schools, and mother and baby homes have all disappeared. The Gloucester Street laundry is now one of the last physical reminders of this Irish gulag archipelago. @pdossantos took this photo of the back wall of the Gloucester Street laundry. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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