Waking the Feminists: Re-imagining the Space of the National Theatre in the Era of the Celtic Phoenix

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1. Magdalene Asylums for unmarried mothers or other “fallen women” were institutions in which penitents were incarcerated and worked, unpaid, in industrial laundries run by the Catholic Church but supported, the McAleese report confirmed in 2013, by state structures.

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Emer O’Toole

Emer O’Toole is Assistant Professor of Irish Performance at Concordia University, Montreal and author of Girls Will Be Girls (2015), an accessible introduction to gender performativity.