Magdalene Laundries - The Good Shepherd Convent - A New Direction

As part of my self initiated project which focused on modern day slavery, I began looking and exploring the Magdalene laundries. Our college, LSAD was once formally know as the Good Shepherd Convent. Many young girls were admitted into the Laundries with out any choice of their own and forced by the nuns to work long hours cleaning laundry and scrubbing floors as "penance for their sins". They were never paid and never received an education during their stay at the laundries. I feel that this is beginning to really ground my project and I can really connect with this concept of modern day slavery as it happened right here in college and the Laundries was only shut down in the 1990's.