Would Life For An Inmate Of A Workhouse Have Been Much Different From That Of A Resident In A Magdalene Laundry?

[sandyRoe]

I think there wouldn't have been much difference.

[emmie]

that was taken from these piece, it's vile

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21345995

[DJHawkes]

I was doing some family history last night on my Lincolnshire Fletchers and traced on the Haydock lodge Lunatic Asylum in in 1891/1901 returns, at first I thought he was an inmate but then realised he worked there for 20 years as an attendant to inmates.
http://www.studymore.org.uk/ahaydock.htm
http://www.studymore.org.uk/mott.htm

but later, into the 1900s the asylum was turned into a lunatic asylum for the better class of lunatic and offered a differnet type of private care, being careful to call it's patients, lunatics rather than idiots or imbeciles.

The number of people that were living in these places in the 1800s was absolutely staggering, with little or no actual treatment.

[emmie]

no much has changed in my opinion...

[Bbbananas]

Sad, dreadful stories. Poor girls.

[emmie]

exactly, these women weren't anything other than vulnerable and in cases without family, so were farmed out, and as the link i provided showed not just limited to the RC church, and in other parts of the world.
in most cases religion has played it's part, i hope those women get compensation or at least a better apology than one proffered by Enda Kenny

[tonyav]

em10, my great grand mother was put in a mental asylum, she lost two sons in the Great War one 1916 ( first day of the Somme ) the other 1917 the destroyer he was on was sunk in the North sea ( some of the bodies where washed ashore in Norway, he wasn't amonst them ) and then my great grandfather died of some illness ( I don't know what it was ).
My aunt aged 83 has told me that as a young girl she used to visit her and that there didn't seem to be anything wrong with her.

[NOX]

We do like to bang on in Ireland about how appallingly heinous the treatment of the Irish is /was by the English. We have been, to date, somewhat more reticient about the fact that we really can give the English a run for their money with the way we treat our own. The Magdalene Laundries need to be held up by our own people as the discgraceful socially appropriated thing they were, egged on by the Church and it's fear of loss of authority, the smug simple ignorance of parishioners who sent their own children there on the church's say so and the plain and simple fact that they were profitable and everyone turned a blind eye. Only once we have looked this bogey man well and truly in the eye, apologised and compensated it's living vitims and honoured it's dead ones loud and clear can we possibly hope to prevent such disgusting happenings ever taking place again, because it was not many weeks ago that yet again the bletherings of the church and it's insidious effect on Irish society caused that poor girl to die in a hospital in Ireland because they refused to induce the birth of her dead baby, because they viewed it as illegal and a sin. We are still sitting in a quagmire of our own primitive mindset by allowing such things to take place in the 21st century.

[emmie]

Nox, very good response, and i totally agree with you. Not just Ireland, but many places, and it's still damn well going on.

[emmie]

this is what i had watched on the news, baying mob comes to mind..

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/belfast-abortion-clinic-mass-protest-planned-28875118.html

[DJHawkes]

Nox there must be alot of people alive today in Ireland that will be hanging their heads, though I doubt many of them will be wearing a wimple or a priests hat, though it'd not dissimilar to the barnardos boys from the 1950s and 60s, our family lost 2 lads to that scheme, my mother-in-laws brothers,