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℘℘℘ Peter Mullan’s The Magdalene Sisters opens ironically with a wedding scene. But it is not a happy occasion. Margaret is lured by her cousin Kevin to an upstairs room where he rapes her. Kevin is chastised, but it is Margaret who has “shamed” her family and is carted off the next morning by the local priest to the Magdalene Asylum run by the Sisters of Mercy. Sound like a nightmare? For some 30,000 women in Ireland during the last century, that’s just what the Magdalene Asylums were. Having committed no crime other than the sin of being pregnant outside marriage, or in some cases, just for being too attractive and therefore a temptation to the boys, young women such as Margaret were confined to the Asylums and stripped of all rights. They were not allowed any contact with the outside world, material possessions, or recourse in defense of their freedom. And for 364 days of the year (with the exception of Christmas Day) they worked in sweatshop-like laundries, whi

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