Justice for Magdalenes Research Archive
Claire McGettrick one of our PhD students from the School of Sociology is a member of the organisation; Justice for Magdalenes Research, this organisation ran a campaign from 2009 to 2013 which led to the State apology to Magdalene women. They donated the archive of that campaign to the (UCD-based) Magdalene Oral History project, and collaborated with Waterford Institute of Technology to digitise the archive.
Pictured below are Claire McGettrick, JFM Research/Irish Research Council Scholar, UCD School of Sociology; Prof Katherine O'Donnell, JFM Research/UCD School of Philosophy; Dr Jennifer O'Mahoney, WIT School of Psychology and Kieran Cronin, Developmental Librarian, WIT at the launch of the digitised archive at WIT last Friday.
The archive contains a wide range of records, including contemporary and historic correspondence, statutory and parliamentary materials, newspaper cuttings and many interesting archival records relating to the Magdalene Laundries.
The research archive is now publicly available at this link: http://repository.wit.ie/JFMA
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