Louise Brangan
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509 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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It's like cosplay for the Bible.
You've got Mary Magdalene on one side and you've got the Virgin Mary on the other.
That, I think, is from the Irish Rosary.
I mean, the Irish magazines that you could read around this time, the 1920s upwards, are really something.
Yeah, so I spent a lot of time reading those.
Yeah, but you can see there, there's something really congratulatory about that, isn't there?
We have these fallen women.
Soiled is the right term.
And there is something incredibly metaphorically rich, isn't there, about the idea that soiled women would now go and scrub the soils and stains from the...
from the clothes, the garments, the everyday life of the ordinary Irish citizen behind closed walls as part of their penance.
She had a job in the laundry and, you know, she could see that this was wrong.
She was appalled and she essentially ran for a short window of time.
almost like an underground railroad.
So she bundled a bunch of women that came out the packing room door into the back of her van and brought them home to her house and then organized their transport to Britain.
And that's an important part of the story.
You know, when you left the laundry, you didn't really feel like you escaped the oppressive Catholic nature.
that you had been living in.
So many of them have to escape the island.
Anyway, I think the nuns seem to have cottoned on very quickly to what she was up to and she was handed her notice effective immediately.
But the thing there is, you know, that happened in the 1960s.
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