Louise Brangan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Somehow my brain just couldn't compute it.
And then, of course, it was revealed to me that she'd actually met McAleese because McAleese had gone and met survivors, but ones who were, as the report describes, still in the care of the nuns.
In the care of.
The nuns.
And she was among them.
And so they had asked them, from what I can gather from the report, the questions they had asked them were, have you ever experienced physical punishment?
Again, essentially, has a crime been committed against you?
Have you ever experienced physical punishment?
And, you know, Bridget said, no, that's not what happened to me.
But I found it so overwhelming to think that they asked her that and said no, but she was almost 90.
She'd been there since she was 12.
And she was going to die there.
maybe no one beat her, but my God, what is the cost of a life not lived?
And that brings us also a bit back around to the mother and baby home narrative, because I thought, you know, the McAleese report is sort of discounted a life like Bridget's and the cruelty of what had happened to her.
And as we continually retell the story of the Magdalene laundries as being a kind of mother and baby home, a life like Bridget's, a 12 year old girl who did nothing wrong, who ends up serving a life sentence in these institutions is also being lost.
So I just found myself really split open after that.
And that sort of emotional charge really drove the writing of the book.
You know, just remembering.
Remembering these women did nothing.
Remembering that they were innocent and that they were forgotten.
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