I was looking forward to walking with Linda Connolly, Professor of
Sociology at University College Cork (who has since moved to Maynooth
University) although I expected it to be quite harrowing too. Ireland
has been rocked by revelations of institutional abuses in mother and
baby homes, industrial schools, orphanages, asylums and Magdalene
Laundries in recent years.
Women were committed to the Magdalene Laundries, often by family members and usually because they were seen as deviant or sexually promiscuous. Linda is an expert on the Irish family and women’s issues, including women in Higher Education, and has written some brilliant work in these areas. Linda had previously sent me some material on the practice of performing symphysiotomies on women in Irish maternity hospitals from the 1940s to the 1980s, an issue she has also recently been interested in.[i]
https://walkingborders.com/walk-10-walking-with-sociologist-linda-connolly-in-cork/
Women were committed to the Magdalene Laundries, often by family members and usually because they were seen as deviant or sexually promiscuous. Linda is an expert on the Irish family and women’s issues, including women in Higher Education, and has written some brilliant work in these areas. Linda had previously sent me some material on the practice of performing symphysiotomies on women in Irish maternity hospitals from the 1940s to the 1980s, an issue she has also recently been interested in.[i]
https://walkingborders.com/walk-10-walking-with-sociologist-linda-connolly-in-cork/