The death of Sinead O'Connor, who stayed in one former laundry as a teen, has prompted renewed interest.
Singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor, who died last month, spent time at the An Grianan Training Centre in her teensThe Magdalene Laundries were back in the spotlight recently following the death of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who spent time in one of the former asylums as a teenager. A new BBC drama examines the impact of the abuse which took place at some of these notorious institutions.
Coincidentally, the BBC commissioned a six-part TV drama about the Magdalene Laundries last year, prior to O'Connor's death. Created and written by Joe Murtagh and starring Ruth Wilson, the Woman in the Wall launches on BBC One on Sunday at 21:00 BST.Luther actress Ruth Wilson stars in and executive produces The Woman in the Wall, which launches this Sunday
The image conjured up by many when they think of the laundries is of the young women, mostly teens, who were held there. But actress Wilson, who stars in and co-produced the series, notes that women of all ages were admitted. "Another thing that shocked me, and this didn't happen in all of them, but in some of them, the girls gave birth, and then they'd have to nurse their child for two years, and then their child was taken away from them," says Wilson.
Years later, Pope John Paul II would acknowledge that abuse had taken place in Catholic institutions across the world. But it took years for the women who had been housed at the laundries to be taken seriously. Wilson refers to the denial or downplaying of what happened to them as a form of "gaslighting".
Wilson is no stranger to playing unpredictable and sometimes unhinged women, such as Alice Morgan in Luther. Murtagh says part of the reason for setting the series somewhere fictional was to "protect any people that we spoke to" during the period of researching.
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