Magdalene Links

Links to sites with information relating to the Magdalene Laundries. If you know of any sites that might be of interest please email us at info@magdalenelaundries.com

The Magdalene Story
Mari Steed's (daughter of a Magdalene, natural mother and adoption activist) Magdalene Laundries website.

Adoption Rights Alliance
Adoption Rights Alliance is a group of people affected by adoption who have come together to ensure that the Irish government enshrines the rights of the adopted child and Ireland's 50,000 adult adopted people in the proposed 2009 Adoption Bill.

ASNI: Adoption Support Network of Ireland
Long-time supporters of justice for Magdalene Laundry survivors.

Justice for Magdalenes Discussion Group
The Yahoo! groups mailing list for those wishing to learn more about the Laundries.

Justice for Magdalenes Action Group
The Yahoo! groups mailing list for those wishing to actively support the cause of the survivors.

Paddy Doyle
Paddy, a survivor of industrial school abuse and other horrors, always tells it like it is!

The Child Migrants' Site
Link to and related articles on the Magdalene Laundries

Derek Leinster
Derek Leinster is a Protestant survivor of abuse at Bethany Home, run by the Church of Ireland. Abandoned by his birth mother at Bethany, where illness, hunger and neglect were commonplace, fostered by an inordinately poor family and then living in poverty but ignored by the well-to-do community in which he was brought up, this is a story that will touch your heart. It is a story of shame.