tv film

[heididog]

anyone know the name of the film about unmarried mothers in Ireland living in a convent and having their babies taken away for adoption during the last centuries?

I think it was BBC, could be another movie channel, not sure. I think it may have been shown during the past year or so.

[marie26]

magdalene sisters or something similar

[Postdog]

Don't think this is it, but there are similarites, so maybe.

Whatvever, if it's not, try to see it, brilliant film. This was shown on the four platform.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318411/

[chinadog]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sis ters

The last one was closed down in the 60's.

[I.Don No]

and as a point of interest the Irish government has still never apologised for these 'launderies'

when an excavation happened in Dublin on the site of one of these places the nuns who lived at this particular convent denied the existence of the laundery and 'had no knowledge' of the many bodies found buried on the site.

isn't religion wonderful?

[chinadog]

Yeh and all those nuns are " Brides of God"? Never in this world I.Don. My Dad was taught by nuns and had a hatred of them that lasted to his dying day. I often wonder if anything happened to him and the other boys.

[Whickerman]

the Magdalene Sisters was a cinema-released movie, there was a BBC one called Sinners about a year previous (and was far superior, even though some of the actresses were in both)

China - sorry to disagree - the last one didn't close in the 60s. The last one actually closed in 1996.

Here's a reprinted Irish Times article from then
http://www.alliancesupport.org/news/archives/0 01939.html

In fact, some of the women are so institutionalized that they remain in care homes.

[chinadog]

I stand corrected Whickerman, Thanks for the link an interesting read. Im so glad those remains were given a proper burial. Still no anwer to that one is there?

[Connemmara]

the tv programme was called Sinners - Magdalene Sisters was the movie

[Connemmara]

sorry I did not see Whickerman's answer there - but Sinners it was - and it was good too.

The three main ladies/characters were interviewed on Irish television and they were 3 broken women.

You can their interview on youtube. Very emotional