Magdalene Asylums

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From 1848
Between this year and October 1996 (when the last one closed), over 30,000 women and girls were virtually imprisoned in Ireland'sMagdalene Asylums for sexual misconduct or other perceived transgressions against the conservative moral code...
1848
The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived in Ireland, and the first Magdalene Asylums were established.