The freedom of Galway city was awarded to two women on Friday for their work relating to helping women in Magdalene laundries.
Ms Burke Brogan is an artist and writer, originally from Clare but she moved to Galway aged two. She worked in a laundry on Forster Street in Galway city while she was a novitiate nun. The play was one of the first to highlight the gruelling and inhumane treatment in Magdalene laundries. It is set in the 1960s and first premiered in 1992, winning multiple awards.Ms McEntee started working in the city’s laundry at the end of 1963. She and her family, aghast by the appalling conditions the women were working and living in, devised a plan to smuggle some of them to safety.
Catherine Corless should get the same.
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Galway to honour women who helped laundry residentsThe Freedom of Galway is to be awarded this afternoon to Patricia Burke Brogan, and posthumously to Ena McEntee, who both worked to protect and assist residents of the former Magdelene Laundry in Galway during the 1960s. I think the fact that appalled & shocked me most is that these dreadful institutions were still open & working until the 1990s & yet they read like some mediaeval practice.
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