"The Magdalene Laundries" is a song on the Joni Mitchell 1994 album "Turbulent Indigo".
They were the forgotten women of Ireland, kept under lock and key, forced to clean and sew, and to wash away the sins of their previous life while never being paid a penny. Some stayed months, others years. Some never left. They were the inmates of Ireland's notorious 20th century workhouses, the Magdalene Laundries.....
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