"As a shocking new documentary film lays bare the atrocities that unfolded at institutions run by religious orders and the State, Tanya Sweeney speaks to one of the survivors, Madeleine Walsh, about her time there. Thanks in part to films like Philomena and Small Things Like These, we have become more aware of the atrocities that unfolded in the Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, and mother and baby homes of the last century."
"Thanks in part to films like Philomena and Small Things Like These, we have become more aware of the atrocities that unfolded in the Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, and mother and baby homes of the last century. But a shocking, searing new documentary sheds an unforgiving new light on the horrors women and their children endured at the institutions run by religious orders and the State."
Films such as Philomena and Small Things Like These increased public awareness of abuses in Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, and mother and baby homes. A new documentary exposes brutal treatment, forced labour, neglect, and systemic cruelty inflicted on women and their children in institutions run by religious orders and the State. Survivor Madeleine Walsh provides firsthand recollections of life inside such institutions, describing humiliation, isolation, and suffering. The documentary combines survivor testimony and archival evidence to reveal patterns of institutional violence and the long-lasting physical and emotional effects on survivors and their families.
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