Magdalene Laundry – Cork
The Good Shepherd Convent – Cork More Images and history at. silverstealth.fotopic.net Built in 1881, the Good Shepherd Convent was the site of an orphanage and a Magdalene laundry until the late 1970s. Three main buildings – a home, convent, and orphanage – have been in a derelict condition since a serious fire in 2003. The laundry building was among a number of buildings that were destroyed in that fire.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@stealthpiccasso because the Catholic church in Ireland put the fear of god into the people (for search of a better word) The Church have a say in literaly everything!! Schools , shops , social life , literaly everything !! i know its hard to understand now but they did in past years!! If anyone was seen to go against the church life as you knew it would never be the same ! You would be shunned from everyday society so it wasnt worth it !addvertising and TV wer monatered y the church
hope all the nuns are looking down from HELL!
i was totally shocked after watching the movie.. tsk…
My grandmother was reared here. The outrage I hear here is wide of the mark and a bit too simplistic. If you an analysis of how the state transferred the responsibility of civilising it’s population. Read Tom Inglis “Moral monopoly”. Remember, those of you who attack the church that your mothers and fathers (as did mine) supported the church. Most still do.
I think its a shame that this building has gone to ruin. It has a chance of redemption as a positive resource for the community.
The men who got the girls pregnant are to BLAME.they got off SCOTTFREE.How could PARENTS AND PRIESTS send them there.SHAME ON THE LOT OF YOU as for the NUNS Should have followed the teachings of christ instead of the TORTURE AND AGONY you created.SOCIETY THEN WAS IGNORANT.Every one had a part.GOD BLESS AND LOVE ALL THE woman and children affected.I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.FOR THOSE WHO ARE SURVIVORS YOU ARE UNSUNG HEROES.
The men who got the girls pregnant are to BLAME.they got off SCOTTFREE.How could PARENTS AND PRIESTS send them there.SHAME ON THE LOT OF YOU as for the NUNS Should have followed the teachings of christ instead of the TORTURE AND AGONY you created.SOCIETY THEN WAS IGNORANT.Every one had a part.GOD BLESS AND LOVE ALL THE woman and children affected.I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.FOR THOSE WHO ARE SURVIVORS YOU ARE UNSUNG HEROES.
The men who got the girls pregnant are to BLAME.they got off SCOTTFREE.How could PARENTS AND PRIESTS send them there.SHAME ON THE LOT OF YOU as for the NUNS Should have followed the teachings of christ instead of the TORTURE AND AGONY you created.SOCIETY THEN WAS IGNORANT.Every one had a part.GOD BLESS AND LOVE ALL THE woman and children affected.I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.FOR THOSE WHO ARE SURVIVORS YOU ARE UNSUNG HEROES.
why is catholic history in EVERY country ALWAYS filled with imesurabe evil like this destruction slavelabour camp ? i guess i’m amazed they don’t have a torture dungeon in cork where they could analy rape and torture little boy’s for their sick perverted pleasure as well. but then, they still continue to do that today, no denieing that..
fact is, catholics are evil by default. there’s millenia of proof to back it up.
there’s simply no denieing that either.
Rest Peacefully all the Magdelene Girls & Women x x x
I would absolutly looove to visit here but its illegal to enter the grounds correct me if im wrong
It’s a strange place, almost haunting.
Im not Catholic (thank God) but if I were I would jump ship! Ive just finished reading Kathy O’Beirnes book ‘Dont ever tell’ …And Im lost for words ! Bless all the girls and boys who suffered in such places and at the hands of those who were meant to protect them the most.. SHAME SHAME SHAME
How hard was it for you to get into the building? A few days ago I recorded some valuable footage of the High Park Magdalene Laundry in Drumcondra, Dublin. I had to hop over a wall to get on the grounds though, it’s a construction site. I haven’t uploaded it yet but I got a lot of footage of the outside, not much of the inside though. The building was so delapidated it would have been dangerous to go inside.
@stealthpiccasso sorry forgot to say that a lot of these womens “crimes” were simply being orphaned and having nowhere else to go, being raped and “shaming” their families or simply being willfull.
@stealthpiccasso you have to remember that ireland was -and in some respects still is- highly religious. they had a strong community but were easily shunned if they didnt fit in. most of the time its was a priests suggestion to put the women there…and you didnt question a priest, their word was law. nobody outside really knew what it was like, all they knew was that these were fallen women who deserved to be punished
A period of great need? Well they had free fuckin labour. How much did the cunts want? Anway, excellent footage. This has got to be the best exploration video I’ve seen. Heart breaking to see but well done! Incidentally how many of the crosses in the graveyard are marked / unmarked?
this place is disturbing you should visit
just watching this video makes me feel awful for them. I bet some jumped from those stair or atleast thought of it.
Just watching in the different rooms and thinking about what could have taken place there. It’s sad
@MsMarycollins Hi mary my mother was also brought up half her life in this convent and i know how you feel you are not alone.
My mother was brought up half her life in madgalene laundry in cork and it doses not bare thinking about what theese poor girls went through words fail me may god bless each and every one of them.
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Respect for all the women in the world. May men cherrish the women’s beauty,love,kindness,cooking,child raising. People who are still going to ROMAN catholic churches,wake up! Maybe the wolfs who pretend they are sheeps are teaching you. What a man does,shows who he really is (not what he says)
Strong catholic society abused my mum who spent twenty seven years in the laundries and died there no one questioned religon its good people have views it has nothing to do with reglion its the people who worked for the church and nuns entered the order half of them came from poor familes and were abused them selfs l blame backward lreland it was the dark ages l must say it is shameful to slag someone of for poor spelling you are luckly to have had a good education
Just like all over the world people were put into asylums of one description or another, society turned its back and said “as long as its not me I don’t care”
Who is to blame…?
Sure the Catholic Church for openly stealing thousands of lives Before depositing many of them in unmarked graves.
However, should we not also point an equally accusing finger in the direction of a society that condoned this behaviour by their lack of resistance. People knew where their daughters were going, there was no uprising to bring the Magdalen Laundries to a close.