Patricia Burke Brogan, former postulant nun whose play Eclipsed revealed the abuse suffered by young women in Irish Catholic institutions – obituary

Babies were taken from unmarried mothers, and even the suspicion that a girl might have unmarried sex could lead to her being locked up

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