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The Fallen

The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence

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The Fallen

著者: Louise Brangan
ナレーター: Louise Brangan
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概要

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When the gates of the last Magdalene Laundry closed in 1996, Ireland moved on. Or so it seemed.


Following independence in 1922, Ireland began to chase a dream: to become the perfect Catholic nation. But purity had a price. Throughout the twentieth century, thousands of women and girls who did not conform – the wayward, the poor, the disabled, the abused – were sent to the Magdalene Laundries. Each was perceived to have fallen in some way. Once locked inside, their hair was shorn off, their names were erased – and then they were put to work. They washed, they scrubbed and they prayed, labouring in an attempt to salvage their souls.

This remains one of the darkest and most misunderstood periods of recent history. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the last Laundry’s closure, The Fallen is the forgotten story of the Magdalene Laundries, told through the voices of the women who endured them, the nuns who presided over them and the communities that lived alongside them.

Unflinching and compassionate, Louise Brangan draws on archives and survivors’ testimonies to dismantle long-held myths about what the Laundries were, who was sent to these places of violence and secrecy, and why. As we move from the past into the present, Brangan compels us not only to confront this shameful history, but to ask a deeper question: what do we choose to remember?

'Compelling, measured and deeply felt' ANNE ENRIGHT
'A terrific yet harrowing unearthing of Ireland's shadowland. A landmark book' RORY CARROLL
'Breaking silence is a catalyst for change' CAELAINN HOGAN

Winner of the 2024 Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award

© Louise Brangan 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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A searing account ... Enraging ... a detailed, thoroughgoing ... superb if horrifying testament (John Banville)
Louise Brangan takes our hazy ideas of such institutions and replaces them with the stark reality ... Brangan’s remarkable book, thrumming with rage and harrowing to read, is a monument to [the] women and their suffering (Laura Hackett)
Critical, informed and beautifully written, The Fallen makes the case for a genuinely transformative response to Ireland's histories of religious incarceration (Máiréad Enright)
Engrossing … it feels part novel … [Brangan] is an accomplished communicator, the reader feels like they are accompanying her as she burrows into the conditions of the soil from which the laundries grew … This meticulously researched book … helps us see more clearly. (Mary McCarthy)
A terrific yet harrowing unearthing of Ireland's shadowland. I thought I knew about the Magdalene Laundries. I was wrong. Brangan's chronicle is limpid, eloquent and devastating. A landmark book. (Rory Carroll)
Compelling, measured and deeply felt; Brangan cuts through shame and fable to tell the truth about the ‘inconvenient' women whose lives were stolen by the Magdalene Laundries. Indispensable. (Anne Enright)
powerful ... authoritative, quietly passionate account ... [a] fine narrative (Bel Mooney)
Vivid ... The Fallen is a highly readable and intelligently engaging account of this systemic injustice [of the Magdalene laundries], and it should prompt a wider reflection both inside and beyond Ireland on the ways in which societies can become inured to the evil all around them. (Fintan O'Toole)
An extraordinary gift ... Within the first 15 pages of The Fallen, this book was inviting me to rethink this history, revealing these institutions and the vexed history of our country in a way I’ve never encountered. My heart was racing as I read the rest (believe it or not, this book is both an education and a page-turner). I am in awe of its meticulous scholarship, and the compelling clarity and courage of the writing. How I wish that it could be studied in every Irish school. Brava, Louise Brangan — I hope I get to meet you someday, to thank you in person for writing this powerful, urgent book. (Doireann Ní Ghríofa)
A forensic ... detailed and haunting history ... Reading The Fallen, even given all that I already knew of the Magdalene Laundries, the toxic mix of piousness and relentless cruelty became even harder to fathom. (Seán O’Hagan)
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