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...Dublin, Ireland was a haven for drug traffickers. Pushers were everywhere, from schools to residential neighborhoods. Playgrounds were littered with used syringes and dirty spoons. Every day there were reports of kids as young as fifteen overdosing on heroin, while the drug lords responsible for these tragedies remained beyond the reach...
...unconventional nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...
Harvard is home to the only graduate program in Celtic studies in the nation, and its reputation is excellent even across the Atlantic in the Celtic countries of Ireland, Scotland and Wales...
...would be “pointless” at this time to try to increase the size of its graduate population, since there are simply not enough spots in academia for Celtic specialists. Though the department currently is “very successful in placing [students] in Scotland, Ireland and Wales,” if more were to be added to the pipeline, there would be no way to guarantee them positions after graduation. “There are not that many places for our Ph.D.s to go,” he says...
...unconventional nunnery in 1960s Ireland, The Magdalene Sisters is a film about hypocrisy, dogma and the horrible deeds committed as a result of religious hysteria. This fact-based story focuses on the lives of three women who, in one sense or another, are judged by the Catholic Church as having been “sinful” and, as a result, are essentially sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor and abuse at the hands of the Sisters of Mercy in what was known as a Magdalene Laundry. The sins of these women extend from the merely unthinkable?...