We Were Only Children!

This documentary tells the stories of young Irish children who were placed in the church-run Magdalen Laundries. Between 1922 and 1996 some 10,000 women and girls were made to work unpaid in laundries run by Roman Catholic nuns and were terribly abused there.  The congregations which ran them were the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy, the Religious Sisters of Charity and the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. The first one opened in 1809; the last laundry closed in 1996. This is Ireland's equivalent of Canada's vile residential schools.