
To honour the women by giving voice to their experience: pianist Deirdre Brenner introduces The Magdalene Songs which she brings to the Oxford International Song Festival
Deirdre Brenner (Photo: Andrej Grilc) From 1922 to 1996 more than 10,000 women and girls were incarcerated in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. Operated by four religious orders, these for-profit punitive institutions detained individuals against their will, […]