Protestant churches face a day of reckoning with North’s inquiry into mother and baby homes
The majority of those held in homes across the North came from a Protestant background, and their babies were adopted by Protestant families
Magdalene laundries
Cillian Murphy’s view of Ireland in the 1980s as ‘the dark ages’ misses the point
Small Things Like These raises a wider question about the communication of our history as one giant, black cloud occasionally interrupted by a lone, bright star
Cillian Murphy: ‘You had the Kerry babies, the moving statues, no abortion, no divorce. It was like the dark ages’
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
Where is our hot moral indignation when it comes to the fathers of the babies found at Tuam?
Small Things Like These misses an essential truth about Catholic Ireland
New law will make it a criminal offence to destroy records of survivors of institutional abuse
Organisations or individuals holding ‘relevant records’ must preserve them under fast-tracked legislation
‘This is the opportunity for people to tell their story in full’: People held in institutions in Northern Ireland urged to come forward
An independent panel is seeking testimony from anyone who spent time in mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries and workhouses, along with those who worked, volunteered in, or lived nearby
Small Things Like These: new trailer shows Cillian Murphy struggling with internal conflict in a darkened New Ross
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
West Cork Chamber Music Festival review: A potent, candlelit reminder of Magdalene inhumanity
Second week featured a resplendent Anna Devin, a Levantine exploration and masterly piano performances
First Minister welcomes ‘milestone’ mother and baby homes inquiry in North
Michelle O’Neill hopes first draft of Bill for redress scheme will be introduced in Assembly before year-end
Queen’s University rejects claims of ‘body donation scheme’ with mother and baby homes
Campaigner says college used the remains of 1,980 people from mother and baby homes for research purposes
Failure to prevent destruction of records is a further insult to those whose identities were stolen
To treat these records with such contempt is to repeat the contempt shown by Church and State to thousands of women and children
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace review – powerful investigation of personal pain behind mother and baby homes
Television: Dubliner Martina Evenden discovers unknown cousin while cousin finds instant extended family
Patricia Carey: ‘I’ve had good experiences of being adopted, but that does not mean that adoption is not difficult’
The newly appointed special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse brings an unshowy sense of determination to her mission
A rambling comedian, a dark memoir of motherhood, and a novel about Leonard Cohen
Reviews in brief of Billy Connolly, Phyl Herbert and Jeffrey Lewis
The Irish Times view on the Stardust apology: a belated acknowledgment of State wrongdoing
Addressing the families in the Visitors’ Gallery, the Taoiseach apologised for the successive rebuffs and humiliations visited on them
The Magadalenes and I: Compelling voices illuminate unspeakable institutional truths from Ireland’s recent past
Podcast review: Steven O’Riordan’s follow-up to 2009 documentary lacks narrative shape but makes up for it in the sheer force of his stories
Mother and baby institutions payment scheme to open on March 20th
Roderic O’Gorman expects the first payments to be made in quarter two of this year
Review of school transport recommends reducing distance rules
Other items at Cabinet include appointment of special advocate for survivors of Magdalene laundries; update on insurance reforms; and plans to improve adult literacy
Cillian Murphy: ‘Magdalene laundries were a collective trauma for people of a certain age’
After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree progress on Magdalene laundry is happening as new Cillian Murphy film absorbs audiences
Cillian Murphy’s Magdalene laundries film grips audience at Berlin festival
Small Things Like These, based on Claire Keegan’s novella, is dedicated ‘to more than 10,000 young women sent to Magdalene institutions for penance and rehabilitation’
Fintan O’Toole: We trusted Ivor Browne with our darkest secrets. He was one of Ireland’s great liberators
Few did more to remove the barriers that separated mentally ill people from the rest of society
Mansplainers are in full ‘listen ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading it all wrong as referendum nears
The mansplainers are in full ‘listen-ladies!’ voice, telling us we’re reading the thing all wrong
The Last Nuns in Ireland: ‘Where were the men, the parents? We were scapegoated for what was going wrong in society’
TV review: Dearbhail McDonald suggests it is time to stop seeing nuns – and, by implication, ourselves and our history – in black and white
David Holmes: ‘I was able to see the real Sinéad O’Connor. She was fiercely intelligent, ridiculously funny’
The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer
The Celestial Realm by Molly Hennigan: A brave new voice in Irish literature
Hennigan calls for public recognition – a reckoning – of the horrors enacted within psychiatric institutions
The Woman in the Wall: Ruth Wilson’s Irish accent runs aground on the rocks of this drama’s stereotypes
Television: The BBC’s hysterically overcooked Magdalene-laundry series is like a reboot of EastEnders’ donkey-in-the-pub episode
‘I don’t believe in these unmarked graves for survivors, still being treated like nobodies’
Probably the youngest person to have entered a Magdalene Laundry, Maureen Sullivan was 12 when she arrived at the establishment at New Ross in 1964
Girl in the Tunnel and A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: timely reminders of a reprehensible past
Two books that are a timely reminder of Ireland’s reprehensible past
Overlooking nuns’ contribution to Ireland erases women from our history – yet again
In a patriarchal world, entering a convent often granted a woman greater freedom than motherhood
Data safety of child sexual abuse settlement records ‘in jeopardy’
Watchdog told redress board the way it retained and processed some files was in breach of data-protection legislation, departmental briefing notes show
From vibrators to Repeal jumpers, communion dresses and fake tan: A history of Irish women in 50 objects
We’re objectifying Irish women but in an illuminating, celebratory way to mark International Women’s Day 2023
Gráinne Mulvey: ‘It’s absolutely remarkable. These women were making huge strides’
The composer’s new work for Finding a Voice, the festival of music by women, is inspired by more than a century of activism
Magdalene laundries survivor recalls a childhood of relentless abuse and neglect
Kathleen King is still fighting at the age of 80, frustrated that the State redress scheme refuses to accept her account of events
A Magdalene laundry and its clients: Holles Street, Fitzwilliam Tennis Club, Captain Americas
Donnybrook Magdalene Laundry’s books include Blackrock College, Switzers, embassies and hospitals
I was born in a mother and baby home. The nuns wanted Mammy to sign adoption papers
When I went blind I was sent to a residential school, but I was determined not to live down to people’s expectations
Nuns who ran Magdalene laundries have not contributed to redress for women
Some €32m in awards of €11,000-€100,000 made to more than 800 survivors to date
On the road to change: Oppression of women in Ireland
Many restrictions placed on women have gone but remnants of past sentiment remain
‘A Nation Under the Influence’ – Lara Marlowe on Joyce-inspired events in Paris
An Irishwoman’s Diary
Dromore redress scheme over clerical abuse unlikely to become a template
Most legal actions by abuse survivors have already been dealt with
Ireland’s break with its Catholic past incomplete, says Sally Rooney
Author says unanswered questions remain regarding the treatment of women
New book on Magdalene Laundries addresses ‘fundamental flaws’
Burials, exhumations and cremations of former Magdalene women ‘deeply troubling’
Why the State had such a big problem with unmarried mothers
Extra-marital sex was a threat to our self-perceived identity of moral superiority
No obstacle to publication of Mother and Baby Homes report, says Taoiseach
Report from commission received by Minister for Children on Friday
No grand conspiracy to protect those responsible for mother and baby homes
Without such confidentiality there would be no Ryan, Murphy, Cloyne or Magdalene reports
Mary Coughlan: ‘32 times I ended up in hospital with alcohol poisoning’
Through addiction, infidelity and other life struggles, music was her constant escape
Magdalene survivors insist State not fulfilling terms of compensation scheme
Healthcare package promised to women falls far short, survey of survivors shows
Some get up early to go to the gym, others because they slept in a doorway
Jennifer O’Connell: There are now two Irelands, co-existing within a few feet of each other
Jennifer O’Connell: It was not just in Gilead that women were stripped of their names
It is time we remembered all Josephs and Marys whose dignity, freedom and lives were stolen
North’s Catholics left out of UK Brexit debate, Primate Eamon Martin says
‘ I’ve become increasingly alarmed at the way the people have found themselves going back into the trenches’
Funeral of emigrant who died alone: Joseph Tuohy ‘ashamed of his existence’
Hundreds gather for Irish man who was separated from his mother at five years of age
Exhibition to honour those who suffered in Magdalene Laundries
Art exhibition will display work of 20 artists in University College Cork
Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith honoured at Glasnevin ceremony
Journalist Justine McCarthy uses speech to address series of crises affecting citizens
Honouring the Magdalenes: ‘When you start talking, you open your mouth and it all comes out’
RTÉ’s ‘Coming Home’ looks back on 2018’s well-wishing event for Magdalene laundry survivors
‘Shocking, shocking:’ Justice Sean Ryan on the abuses of children uncovered in his report
Interview: On the 10th anniversary of the report’s publication, Ryan looks back
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