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In recent years, several books have attempted to piece together what really happened behind the doors of power in Ireland's Magdalene laundries, including Emer Martin’s novel 'The Cruelty Men,' Claire Keegan’s novella 'Small Things Like These,' and new collection of essays, 'A Dublin Magdalene Laundry: Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland,' edited by Mark Coen, Katherine O’Donnell and Maeve O’Rourke.

HUNTINGTON — The parents of an intellectually challenged woman are suing RSCR West Virginia for her death.

The proposed redress scheme – which is expected to pass in the Dáil today – is deeply flawed, James Smith writes.

The Whitehorse Star of Oct. 22, 1915, reported that the first all-Whitehorse contingent of volunteers for the Canadian Expeditionary Force left that morning for The Willows Camp, in Victoria, B.C., where they were to enlist and begin training to serve in the Canadian Forces overseas.

<p>James Smith, a scholar and advocate for the victims of Ireland&#39;s social service institutions including mother and child homes, reformatories, and the notorious Magdalen&nbsp;Laundries, warns that the government&#39;s attempts at compensation stifle openness and transparency.&nbsp;</p>