Legacies of the Magdalen Laundries

Foreword: Memory, violence, and the body – Marianne Hirsch
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Commemoration, gender, and the postcolonial carceral state – Miriam Haughton, Mary McAuliffe, and Emilie Pine

Part I Witnessing and remembering: Magdalen Laundries
1 Public performance and reclaiming space: Waterford's Magdalen Laundry – Jennifer O’Mahoney, Kate McCarthy, and Jonathan Culleton
2 ‘A document of truth?’ Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the McAleese Report – Lucy Simpson-Kilbane
3 Unremembered in life and death: funeral and burial practices in Ireland's Magdalen Laundries – Nathalie Sebbane
4 Witnessing: testimonial knowledge as ongoing memory transmission – Audrey Rousseau
5 Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed in Brazil: resonances and reflections – Alinne Fernandes

Part II Parallel histories: then and now
6 From Tuam to Birmingham: a case study of children’s homes in Ireland and the UK – Sarah-Anne Buckley and Lorraine Grimes
7 Reflections on Ireland’s ‘home(s)’: shame, stigma, and grievability – Clara Fischer
8 ‘He’d never have gotten a job like that if he ’ d stayed with me’ – the uneasy comedy of Philomena – Mary McGill
9 ‘That stuff is FOI-able … and it could be used against us if someone takes a case’: unlawful adoption in the past and the present – how much has changed? – Conall Ó Fátharta
10 Contract, the state, and the Magdalene Laundries – Máiréad Enright
11 Who is protecting who and what? The Irish state and the death of women who sell sex: a historical and contemporary analysis – Eilís Ward
12 Homing in on the states we are in – Speaking of IMELDA
13 Ireland’s Direct Provision Centres: our past and our present – Vukasín Nedeljkovic

Index