Merrion Press 🔖is on the cusp of publishing a new book by Gearóid Ó Faoleán.
COMING SOON
Girl in the Tunnel My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdelene
Laundries Maureen Sullivan
When Maureen Sullivan was
just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was
being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in
her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be
the one who would face a harrowing punishment.
Within twenty-four hours,
Maureen was taken from her home and her beloved grandmother, and sent to
the Magdalene Laundry in New Ross, Co. Wexford, run by the Order of
the Good Shepherd nuns. She was told that she would receive an
education there, but instead she was immediately stripped of her
meagre possessions and thrown into forced labour, washing clothes
and scrubbing floors in inhumane and unrelenting conditions. Not
allowed to speak, barely fed, and often going without water, the
child was viciously beaten by the nuns for years and hidden away in
an underground tunnel when government inspectors came. No one
must see how cruelly the nuns were treating her.
In the heart-breaking Girl
in the Tunnel, Maureen bravely recounts her agonising
journey from a monstrously violent home to the cold and brutal
Magdalene laundry system, and her desperate, gruelling fight for
freedom and for justice.
Paperback • €16.99 |
£14.99 • 256 pages • 234 mm x 153 mm
• 9781785374524
Maureen Sullivan grew up in Carlow town. When she was just
twelve years old she was placed in the Magdalene Laundry at New Ross,
County Wexford, where she was forced to work long hours scrubbing floors
and washing clothes, and denied an education. After two years she was
transferred to another laundry in Athy, County Kildare and then to a
school for blind people in Dublin. After she left the school, she
returned to Carlow before moving to England. She is now an advocate for
other survivors.
Merrion Press 🔖is on the cusp of publishing a new book by Gearóid Ó Faoleán.
COMING SOON
Girl in the Tunnel My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdelene
Laundries Maureen Sullivan
When Maureen Sullivan was
just twelve years old, she confided in her teacher that she was
being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Never, in
her darkest imaginings, could she have dreamt that she would be
the one who would face a harrowing punishment.
Within twenty-four hours,
Maureen was taken from her home and her beloved grandmother, and sent to
the Magdalene Laundry in New Ross, Co. Wexford, run by the Order of
the Good Shepherd nuns. She was told that she would receive an
education there, but instead she was immediately stripped of her
meagre possessions and thrown into forced labour, washing clothes
and scrubbing floors in inhumane and unrelenting conditions. Not
allowed to speak, barely fed, and often going without water, the
child was viciously beaten by the nuns for years and hidden away in
an underground tunnel when government inspectors came. No one
must see how cruelly the nuns were treating her.
In the heart-breaking Girl
in the Tunnel, Maureen bravely recounts her agonising
journey from a monstrously violent home to the cold and brutal
Magdalene laundry system, and her desperate, gruelling fight for
freedom and for justice.
Paperback • €16.99 |
£14.99 • 256 pages • 234 mm x 153 mm
• 9781785374524
Maureen Sullivan grew up in Carlow town. When she was just
twelve years old she was placed in the Magdalene Laundry at New Ross,
County Wexford, where she was forced to work long hours scrubbing floors
and washing clothes, and denied an education. After two years she was
transferred to another laundry in Athy, County Kildare and then to a
school for blind people in Dublin. After she left the school, she
returned to Carlow before moving to England. She is now an advocate for
other survivors.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
A victim of the organised and institutionalised pederasty that was the Catholic Church. What a very brave woman.
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