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Mary Patricia McAleese ( /mækəˈliːs/; née Leneghan; Irish: Máire Pádraigín Mhic Ghiolla Íosa; born 27 June 1951) served as the eighth President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. She...

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  • Ireland's ex-president coming to BC

    News Source: The Boston Globe | 2 months ago
    Mary McAleese, the former president of Ireland, will join Boston College as a visiting scholar this fall, university announced Monday. A BC statement quoted McAleese, who will serve as the Burns Library Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, as saying
  • Report: Ireland oversaw harsh Catholic laundries

    News Source: The Boston Globe | 4 months ago
    Ireland's government oversaw workhouses run by Catholic nuns that once held thousands of women and teenage girls in unpaid labor, often against their will, a fact-finding report concluded Tuesday, establishing state involvement in the country's
  • Irish PM apologises to Magdalene laundries

    News Source: The Daily Telegraph | 4 months ago
    Prime Minister Enda Kenny has apologised to thousands of women who suffered in appalling conditions in church-run laundries in Ireland, after the publication of a report investigating state involvement. More than 10,000 women were sent to the
  • Magdalene Laundries: Ireland PM Apologises

    News Source: Sky News | 4 months ago
    Ireland's prime minister has apologised to thousands of women sent to Catholic-run workhouses were they were subjected to a regime of hard work and prayer. The Magdalene laundries started in the late 1700s as places to rehabilitate so-called "fallen"
  • Magdalene laundries survivors threaten hunger strike

    News Source: The Guardian | 4 months ago
    Chris Bacon/PA Elderly survivors of Ireland 's notorious Magdalene laundries are threatening to go on hunger strike if the Irish government fails to establish a financial redress scheme for women held in the institutions. The Fine Gael-Labour
  • Magdalene Laundries: Victims Await Report

    News Source: Sky News | 4 months ago
    The religious-run institutions started in the late 1700s as places to rehabilitate so-called 'fallen' women. It is estimated that around 30,000 women, mainly single mothers and teenage girls, were placed in the laundries to work. There were 10
  • Why not open the College of Cardinals to women?

    News Source: The Globe & Mail | 5 months ago
    Story In the same month, feminist scholars, cloistered nuns, historians and theologians celebrated the extremely rare honour of Doctor of the Church bestowed by fellow German Benedict XVI on the 12th-century Benedictine St. Hildegard of Bingen
  • Friendship our weapon of choice

    News Source: Open Democracy | 5 months ago
    One could argue that it has been the ordinary person who has actually best embraced the spirit of the Agreement. While hatred is taught, it can also be untaught.  What would a genuinely shared future for the people of Northern Ireland look like to


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