Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment

Acknowledgments ix Preface xiii Introduction: The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland's Containment Culture and the Carrigan Report (1931) 1(22) Part 1 The Magdalen Asylum and History: Mining the Archive The Magdalen in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 23(21) The Magdalen Asylum and the State in Twentieth-Century Ireland 44(43) Part 2 The Magdalen Laundry in Cultural Representation: Memory and Storytelling in Contemporary Ireland Remembering Ireland's Architecture of Containment: ``Telling'' Stories on Stage, Patricia Burke Brogan's Eclipsed and Stained Glass at Samhain 87(26) (Ef)facing Ireland's Magdalen Survivors: Visual Representations and Documentary Testimony 113(23) The Magdalene Sisters: Film, Fact, and Fiction 136(23) Monuments, Magdalens, Memorials: Art Installations and Cultural Memory 159(24) Conclusion: History, Cultural Representation, . . . Action? 183(6) Appendix 189(15) Notes 204(35) Bibliography 239(22) Index 261