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30 Sep 02 - 11:01 AM (#793998) Subject: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: Alice Does anyone know of songs that are about or refer to the Magdalene Asylums of Ireland? I heard a report on the film MAGDALENE SISTERS on NPR radio this morning. A web page with a poem is here http://mourne.net/shepherds.htm
You can hear the NPR segment at NPR radio www.npr.org |
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30 Sep 02 - 11:28 AM (#794011) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: wilco Sometimes, stories seem so bizarre, that you can't believe that these conditions exist in civilized societies. Why would the Irish people allow this behavior? |
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30 Sep 02 - 11:32 AM (#794015) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: Áine Just stopping by to add a link to the "Lyr Req: Magdalene Laundry" thread, which includes songs about this subject. All the best, Áine |
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30 Sep 02 - 11:41 AM (#794021) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: Alice Thanks, Áine, MMario refreshed the thread. The NPR segment I linked to above includes comments from the mouths of women who experienced the slave labor imprisonment. I'm curious if the music at the end of it is from the film soundtrack. |
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03 Jul 13 - 08:10 PM (#3533529) Subject: Lyr Add: MAGDELENE MAID ELIZABETH FLYNN From: mg I think I posted before..tune is if I was a blackbird MAGDELENE MAID ELIZABETH FLYNN I am a young laundress my story is sad Once I was courted by a young grocer's lad He got me with child and that was my doom And now I'm encased in this cold bitter tomb My Mickey was steamrolled and sent off to sea He never came back for the baby and me My darling Delila was sent to the states I'll never more see her or know of her fate The food won't sustain us it mostly is gruel And some but not all of the sisters are cruel We have women of 80 and girls of just 10 And if we escape we are brought back again A girl with a past a girl with no shame I'm a penitent now without even a name With bleach to my elbows I wash away sin But if you should ask it's Elizabeth Flynn The fiddles and drums are prepared for the dance We would so like to join them but there is no chance So whenever the old washerwoman is played I ask you remember each Magdalene Maid |
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04 Jul 13 - 01:02 AM (#3533583) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: GUEST Magdelaine laundries by joni mitchell? |
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04 Jul 13 - 03:31 AM (#3533602) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: GUEST,Don Wise Mary Coughlan has a song about the Magdalene laundries. It's on Youtube ( just enter Mary Coughlan.........) |
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04 Jul 13 - 06:31 AM (#3533631) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: GUEST,guest annette Christmas Moore has written a song about these women. Not sure if it is available on any album. He sang it at a walk with the Frank Harte weekend last year. |
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04 Jul 13 - 06:43 AM (#3533635) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: Jack Campin I have a hymn written for the Edinburgh Magdalen Asylum in 1802 in my collection of music relating to Edinburgh: http://www.campin.me.uk/Embro/Webrelease/Embro/09love/09love.htm Look for "Confession". |
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04 Jul 13 - 06:47 AM (#3533639) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: Willa Grace Notes sing the Johnny Mulhern song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69uneFY930 |
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04 Jul 13 - 11:26 AM (#3533740) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: OlgaJ I think the Christie Moore song is actually a version of the Joni Mitchell one, unless he's written one of his own in the last couple of years. |
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11 Dec 21 - 01:56 PM (#4128658) Subject: RE: Any songs about the Magdalene Asylums? From: GUEST Annie Grace, on spotify |