Caelainn Hogan: Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished ‘Fallen Women’ and Their Children [2020] paperback Condition:New witty and powerful novel forces

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Caelainn Hogan: Republic of Shame: How Ireland Punished ‘Fallen Women’ and Their Children [2020] paperback Condition:New witty and powerful novel forces'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood '[A] furious, necessary book' Sinead Gleeson Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of 'fallen women'. In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude. And in the mother