Louise Brangan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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And so I thought the broader story of the Magdalene laundries was exemplified by these six women in particular.
So for instance, someone like Eileen, who's at the opening of the book, was a teenage runaway, had been born in a mother and baby home, had, you know, there's an element of her story that I feel so tragic because she
You know, she'd been born in a mother and baby home, had been in an abusive then family situation.
And then as a teenager, 14, runs away to the big city.
So all the odds were against her.
And yet she manages to land on her feet.
She finds a job in a B&B that she liked, with people that she liked.
In Dublin.
In Dublin.
And then one Sunday evening, two members of the Legion of Mary walk in off the street to approach her to tell her they're going to bring her somewhere better.
The Legion of Mary are absolutely fascinating.
They begin just before on the advent of independence in Ireland by a man, Frank Duff.
At that time, they were considered fanatics.
And I'm not being anachronistic here.
That is a term that is used in the archive.
At the time, in newspaper articles inside the government, they're saying, oh, this is just a group of fanatics.
The church also kept them slightly outside.
They thought they were too extreme.
Fast forward to the 1950s.
The Legion of Mary, Legion in name and Legion in nature.
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