Trapped FOR LIFE in a secret asylum? These women deserved better...

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Hi friends, happy almost St. Patty’s Day!
I’ll be honest with you… it’s hard to shock me anymore. So when I tell you that this story that I found SHOOK ME to my core… you know it’s for real. While I was looking into lesser-known Irish history, I kept reading about these things called the Magdalene Laundries. And while something like “laundry” seems innocent enough, this story is anything but that. These Catholic Church corruption-founded facilities destroyed the lives of countless women, and justice has yet to be served-even to this day.
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Chapters:
00:00 - INTRO
03:29 - THE "FALLEN WOMEN"
08:20 - A "RESPECTABLE" REHAB
12:57 - THE CATHOLIC CHURCH STEPS IN
17:12 - AGAINST THEIR WILL...
20:53 - ABUSED BY NUNS
26:35 - HARD LABOR
29:50 - SURVIVOR STORIES
34:37 - A MASS GRAVE!?
39:25 - PRESSURE TO INVESTIGATE
44:09 - SCARY STATISTICS
47:11 - CONCLUSION
48:11 - NEXT WEEK ON DARK HISTORY: THE OLYMPICS
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@helmhammerhand1 2 ай бұрын

In 1989, my mother who had just turned 20 got pregnant. Her boyfriend at the time told his mother, who basically kidnapped my mother and took her to a laundry. She was luckily only there for a little while before she could find a phone and secretly call granny who came to get her in a blaze of fury. She was very lucky that she got out and could raise my sister and eventually the rest of her children. I appreciate you doing a video to raise awareness of this

@cherylmaden5989 2 ай бұрын

An Irish grandma in a blaze of fury is definitely something to be scared of I'm positive she could probably take a whole room of nuns on lol💜

@monicapatton1405 2 ай бұрын

Did your sister have a relationship with her dad & grandmother that took your mom to the laundry?

@helmhammerhand1 2 ай бұрын

@@monicapatton1405 Not really no. She met her dad when she was in her twenties but he didn't really improve as a person with age so that didn't really work out. She didn't need him really as she had my uncles for dads! She never met the grandmother I don't think. Also it was 82 not 89 lol oops

@kathleenmorabito4477 2 ай бұрын

I’m just going home 😮

@lifewithklc 2 ай бұрын

Wait a minute….1989, and not 1889?! I- 🤯🤯

@corinaturner1588 2 ай бұрын

I'm from Dublin, a few years back I worked a covid wars and one of the patients was an elderly lady- very funny and bubbly but had a faded tattoo of two pigs on her forearm. When I asked what the story behind the pigs were, she said each pig represented the nuns that abused her. She grew up in the asylum as an orphan, eventually got out in her early twenties only to find that 4 other girls in there turned out to be her sisters and they wouldn't figure that out for years to come. Fascinating stuff!

@deniseboden1984 2 ай бұрын

😢😢

@Nathalie19658 2 ай бұрын

Covid wars.? Freudian slip ?The devil is in the details.

@SunnyDays70s 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating ? More like heartbreaking I’d say.

@georginalowe4740 2 ай бұрын

I really want to know more about her story!

@mrsksy777 2 ай бұрын

Do the Dark History of Neanderthals.

@faeriefish5515 2 ай бұрын

My aunt was blindfolded while in labour and had her daughter taken away. They wouldn't let go of her wrist until she signed the papers and she still blames herself to this day. Forced adoption is the next step from forced birth.

@SunnyDays70s 2 ай бұрын

😢

@amiiann Ай бұрын

This is horrific

@lynnnicolee4126 Ай бұрын

I couldn’t imagine someone stealing my kids

@cassandradekruijff4457 2 ай бұрын

I have lived in Ireland the bulk of my life. I went to a college in Limerick which was formerly named Limerick School of Art and Design. My college building was previously a Magdalene laundries. I remember working late at night in the library and developing such an erie feeling. The orphanage was directly beside the college and was connected by secret tunnels. There was a mass grave infront of my college of almost 200 women and children. I remember asking for documents to learn more from the library but these could only be viewed under supervision and not be removed from the premises. There is still a hush hush culture about this part of history. It truly is a devastating story.

@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 Ай бұрын

😳😢😔

@MarshIsQueer 12 күн бұрын

Genuine question, is it said Magdalene like the college or Magdalene like Mary Magdalene? I keep reading it as Maudlin laundries (I'm American so I don't really know when it's pronounced like the college or like Mary Magdalene)

@cassandradekruijff4457 12 күн бұрын

@@MarshIsQueer Magdalene, like Mary Magdalene. My college was formally named Limerick school of art and design but the places themselves where this awful business was conducted were called Magdalene Laundries. Hope that helps.

@MarshIsQueer 12 күн бұрын

@@cassandradekruijff4457 thank you!

@irishalchemy 2 ай бұрын

As an Irish person, its great to see you covering this. The shameful actions of the church still affect many to this very day. We are still finding their unmarked mass graves. Thank you for shedding some light on a very dark matter.

@martinlandy1722 2 ай бұрын

She needs to speak more on the Tuam babies 😢 that was heartbreaking. The world needs to know what the catholic church done in ireland

@heylove582 2 ай бұрын

I’m reading this in an Irish accent

@lucyfurr1075 2 ай бұрын

Xoxoxo

@neuswoesje590 2 ай бұрын

I hope DNA testing can give them back their names. those places tried so hard to take their names and identities, I hope we can eventually give them back

@MsCourtneyNicole83 2 ай бұрын

@@heylove582Same.

@christianavance9124 2 ай бұрын

I started learning about and researching the laundry's after Sinead O'Connor ripped up the popes picture on stage because of the coverups. She was stigmatized for calling the pope out and most American news stations still helped support the Church instead of her. It was years before I could access enough info online to figure out what happened.

@Deenurr 2 ай бұрын

I’ve just had a talk with my 10yr old about sinead. Not in depth about WHAT she was arguing, but the fact it was her who was brave enough to stand up and call out one of the biggest powers in the world. She was bullied, harassed, dismissed and lost her career for doing the right thing. That’s the sort of person I want my kids idolising. Actual hero’s

@nicolecordy1723 2 ай бұрын

I saw that live. She was so incredibly brave to have done that. It gives me chills thinking about it.

@maggiemae0725 2 ай бұрын

R.i.p. Sinead O'Connor! She deserved so much better for being so brave .

@maritzasanmartin7775 2 ай бұрын

She was so right. Rip.

@crissig6256 2 ай бұрын

Rip angel ❤

@nataliemcd9318 Ай бұрын

"Why dont they apologize?" Because that would mean admitting that they were wrong. Most hyper-religious organizations and individuals can't admit that they were wrong, like, ever.

@FlowerGirlMy Ай бұрын

on point sadly

@kellymusher6630 Ай бұрын

The singer Sinead O'Connor was spent 18 months at a laundry in 1981 in Dublin at age 14. She talked about it. Her laundry was closed in 1996. 😢

@ChefSarah4104 2 ай бұрын

It's crazy to me that it took until 1996 to get these places officially shut down. 🤯

@nicoleryan3559 2 ай бұрын

Dia dhuit, Bailey! Long time fan.❤ I'm a 26-year-old Irish woman, born and bred. A lot of the time, Irish history is presented very badly; via mainstream TV, history books, etc. You truly did your research on this and did such a fantastic job. The Magdeline Laundries and the like is a piece of history that we learn in primary school (1-6th grade for you). It makes me happy beyond words to see this story told on a very popular platform. The Irish really deserved better. May all of the harmed and tortured souls never be forgotten. suaimhneas síoraí.🖤

@alisonpage5994 2 ай бұрын

I’m so glad they teach about it in Irish schools now! I didn’t learn about it till I was an adult ☘️

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m 30 and we didn’t learn about in at all, not in primary or secondary

@helen704 2 ай бұрын

Made me smile to see gailge 🇮🇪

@laurenn5811 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm a 28 year old Irish woman and this was not something that was taught when I was in school. At any point. Would have thought this to be little inappropriate for children under the age of 12?

@nicoleryan3559 2 ай бұрын

@@laurenn5811 I thought as such, too, in hindsight. I was in an all girls school and it was drilled into us. I was thankful to explore it so young. Really opened my eyes.

@DiaryofaDitchWitch 2 ай бұрын

Glad you listened to my requests and covered this. Sick of people acting like the church is benign.

@sonyaflorence5972 2 ай бұрын

Religion is the reason for all man-made suffering on the planet. It should be globally illegal

@kaykinyaku 2 ай бұрын

Listening to this made me feel like how I did when I was hearing one of my elders talk about the Native American children being taken away from them to residential schools to be stripped from their cultures, long hair cut off, sexually assaulted, & told to speak English only. They also have mass graves behind A LOT of these places. Hundreds recently found this past year, so I’ve felt that grief too often & now im all emotional over these women who had to experience that horrible trauma to the very end.

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

Look up Kindred Spirits. It’s a sculpture in Cork, Ireland, a tribute to the Choctaw Nation. They donated $170, when they heard about the famine in Ireland - which would be equivalent to thousands today, when they themselves had just gone through the Trail of Tears 16 years before. During the pandemic, when it came out that Navajo Nation was especially affected, the Irish people donated $2.5 million. Some even posted money, when they couldn’t do it online. The Irish will always stand by our Native friends. We will always stand with the oppressed. We know all too well

@Celestiana06 2 ай бұрын

Theres a reason theres a formed bond between the Native Northern Americans and the Irish.

@pinkluvr48 Ай бұрын

It still gives me chills thinking about the mass grave under or behind one of those residential schools in Canada .. how devastating and the horror

@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 Ай бұрын

@@Celestiana06oh yeah. And I can’t remember what tribe, but didn’t they send Ireland money to try to help during the potato famine? I’m still mad I only learned that as an adult.

@rebeccacarthy8768 2 ай бұрын

I'm Irish, these homes are our biggest shame. My own grandmother gave me mam and her little brother up for adoption because she wasn't married and was terrified she would be sent to one of these homes. There's over 200 babies dead in a septic tanks at one of these home in Galway It was discovered years ago and still they are in this tank. Alot of babies are sold to American couples illegally. And religion is not everything anymore. Not since it was made known what was happening in the homes. And what happens to these babies and their mothers.

@rebeccacarthy8768 2 ай бұрын

And also to add it was a genocide... The potato crops failed but there was food. We're an island. There was fish,meat, crops to make bread etc but it was kept from us by the English lords.

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

Do you not mean Tuam? That’s Co. Galway.

@michellekennedy4426 2 ай бұрын

I was actually suprised Bailey didn't mention all the illegal adoptions,thats the first thing I think of associated with the laundries.

@pumpkinqueen9931 2 ай бұрын

I have been pitching this exact story to her for ever 4 years. I really hoped she covers it cause it needs to be talked about more. All orphan babys from what ever land should all be brought to light

@cookbookworm 2 ай бұрын

My husband's grandmother was a nun and she had been sent to the US to teach. Her parents died in a flu epidemic (not the Spanish flu, but later) and her youngest brother ran away because he was under 18 and he was terrified to be put in an orphanage, so the family asked her to come home and help find him. She notified the convent and they told her, "We're your family now." She said, "Yeah, no" and left the order and returned to Ireland. She did eventually return to the US and she was still staunchly Catholic until the end. 🤷‍♀

@hiddeninmyshadow 2 ай бұрын

There are some parallels here to what happened in residential schools. Both were run by the church, people had their names taken away, their hair cut,, they were humiliated, abused, held hostage and taken there again their will. Wow.

@ellebelle86 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention the numbers of mass/unmarked graves that have been discovered!!!

@lolz6449 2 ай бұрын

I just made a similar comment!! Thank you❤ agreed! The residential schools caused generations of trauma. There are so many books ... it's really awful what happened to all those kids

@ctotheoleman 2 ай бұрын

Tldr: the Catholic Church hasn’t done anything positive for humankind in over 2000 years

@clauditafachini6642 2 ай бұрын

Same with those schools up in Canada for the children of indigenous people 😢

@preciousskyxo 2 ай бұрын

That’s exactly what I thought. Sounds identical to what residential school survivors went through.

@kumakena 2 ай бұрын

As a survivor, I really appreciate your sensitivity and the trigger warnings. 🖤 It may annoy people who don’t get it, but it means so much to me!

@ItGetsWeirder 2 ай бұрын

Hey Bailey! I went to college in a Magdalene laundry turned art college. The third floor was closed off as I sign of respect (where the women gave birth) and there was a door up there that was narrow enough to let the girls in when they were newly pregnant but that they wouldn’t be able to get out of once they were heavily pregnant. There was also a balcony in the church that was technically outside the church as the women were considered “sinners” and not allowed in the church and they had to sit there with their babies to “display their sin to the congregation”. Utterly horrific places!

@ItsCookiePartyy 2 ай бұрын

There’s a movie called “The Magdalene Sisters”… it’s based upon four women who went through that horrid place. Thank you for covering this, I’d check out the movie if you haven’t already seen it. It’s on KZfaq. I purchased it. Edit: I made this comment before she mentioned the movie I just commented about… so don’t come for me please. I sometimes comment during the video or I forget things I want to say. Thank you.

@solene2014 2 ай бұрын

Cette femme arabella était une bienfaitrice elle a bâtit un orphelinat pour recueillir des enfants orphelins et des jeunes mères avec leur bébés tatie Bailey merci de partager cette information je t'aime 😊❤🦄

@solene2014 2 ай бұрын

Tatie Bailey je voulais te dire que nous sommes au moins de ramadan pour nous les musulmans j'ai remarquée joan aujourd'hui merci beaucoup d'avoir aimée ma réponse tatie Bailey 😊😊

@Onora619 2 ай бұрын

same

@solene2014 2 ай бұрын

Tatie Bailey tu pourras faire un épisode sur la manucure ça pourrait être intéressant 😊

@jxn1056 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will check it out

@graceosullivan4229 2 ай бұрын

As an Irish person, thank you for educating the world on our real, dark history! Happy almost St Patrick's Day 🍀

@jguyfletch2187 2 ай бұрын

Umm, you know, this was in many countries worldwide, it's actually Roman Catholic Church history; and they've done much worse.

@Ari.Flavorfunds 2 ай бұрын

The energy of this case really hit my heart hard, the idea of all these women diying and being treated like nothing for so long made cry. Thats way we can not take for granted our ancestors and keep doing the work for our next generation

@irishgirlwhispering 2 ай бұрын

Big irish fan here Bailey. My job involves working with a group of older women who were a product of this institutionalised system. They were sent to this Catholic institution because they were born to unmarried mothers or considered to have a disability of some sort. Some of them never saw their families again and they were also considered to have an intellectual disability, however I believe some of the wonderful kind ladies I work with never had intellectual disabilities, I feel as they were deprived of an education, surrounded by others who had severe disabilities and had no opportunity of a life within society they were at a huge disadvantage, and held back from having relationships, careers and any type of life experiences. This wonderful group of women are still cared for by this institution now renamed and moved away from the Catholic ties, they now live within the community and come to the retirement group where I am honoured and privileged to work with them, they all have such amazing stories and I have so much respect for what they went through. Despite all of this they are still so kind and amazing human beings. I love my job because of them and hope in their final years they are finding peace for the life that was dictated to them by Catholicism.

@madisonrudd6538 2 ай бұрын

I may or may not have told my students to use your page [they are juniors/seniors] to review some topics we learned this year. I told them you get to teach about it the way I wish I could. :)

@tigerlilypritchard1237 Ай бұрын

That is freaking awesome!!!! I feel like kids could really get into history if it was presented like bailey does it. You're an awesome teacher! ❤

@aubrinichol4492 Ай бұрын

Birds of a feather! I show my students Bailey all the time and we have the best discussions!

@cynthialockhart6127 2 ай бұрын

What humans do to one another breaks my heart.

@alisonpage5994 2 ай бұрын

As I Irish woman I I want to say thankyou so much for your excellent research. Probably the best and most accurate retelling I’ve seen ☘️

@Jess-qv4ve 2 ай бұрын

New film about this starring Cillian Murphy. Its called Small Things Like These, based on book of same name. Was filmed in my brothers town and will hopefully be available soon.

@sammy-jodillon9092 2 ай бұрын

My nana was placed in a mother and baby 'home' in the North of Ireland which was similar to the Magdalene laundries. She was there to have her baby (my mum) and after 6 weeks they were separated for nearly 2 years. My nana had to fight to get her baby back and all because she was r*ped and not married!!! During those 2 years of separation, my nana got married and wrote to the nuns not to put her baby up for adoption as she could now provide a stable home. We are still waiting on an apology and justice, such a shame that my nana is no longer with us to even see it when it does happen. It is so important that everyone around the world researches about these institutions, you never know who was affected!

@becca3284 2 ай бұрын

I’m so glad they were reunited! What a horrible thing your Nana went through.

@andreafitzmaurice5395 2 ай бұрын

So nice to see you cover an Irish story ❤️ only 32 years ago the nuns in my mothers school tried to arrange secretly for her to be put into a laundry because she was pregnant with my brother, mad to think it’s not even that long ago!!

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

They’d like us to think it’s ancient history. Not at all. They’d still do it if they could

@morgancolley1957 2 ай бұрын

I found out that the famous artist, Sinead O'Connor, RIP, was a survivor of the Magdalene Laundries. Here everyone thought she was crazy and thought it was disrespectful for tearing up the popes picture on SNL. Thank you for deep diving into this story.

@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 Ай бұрын

I remember that. And sure at face value it would seem disrespectful. But to anyone who knows how people like that in power operate, especially in the religious sect, the first thought might be “what did they do or what do they represent to make her do that”?

@mermaid_at_heart213 28 күн бұрын

@@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 I remember, too. When she did that, I applauded her for it. Even at that young age, I knew how corrupt the Catholic church was, in addition to other powerful organizations and people around the world. Organized religion in general has many skeletons in many closets, and that was not lost on me. I saw some of it personally. Sinead was courageous and I admired her strength to speak out against tyranny and evil.

@mims00000 2 ай бұрын

I'm Irish and the writer of " The Magdalene Sisters" lived in my village. She actually only passed away about two years ago.

@ardenalexa94 2 ай бұрын

I have Irish ancestors and would love to learn more about Ireland, even if it’s the dark side of it as mentioned in this video. Are there any books you’d recommend?

@mims00000 2 ай бұрын

Do you know what area they came from? Loads of books available by authors local to the area and they usually have a great insight. Two brilliant books are " the sins of the mother" and another is "making sense of the troubles". Some topics they may be also interested in would be the Civil war, famine and we have a beautiful history focloir. Also st Brigid was the ultimate feminist role model x

@ardenalexa94 2 ай бұрын

@@mims00000 unfortunately I don’t know what area of Ireland they were from. But thank you for the book suggestions.

@vivianaestremera5381 2 ай бұрын

@@ardenalexa94try reading Angela’s ashes! It’s great brings you back in time in Ireland

@ardenalexa94 2 ай бұрын

@@vivianaestremera5381 thank you!

@rebeccaflood7298 2 ай бұрын

I took an Irish Literature class in college, and we had a whole section on the Magdalene laundries, including the ones in America.

@jumbledjourni7691 2 ай бұрын

I feel like a lot of your dark history videos have been raising awareness for big events like this, and I think that's pretty cool. I've always loved you, Bailey, but what you're doing is way more than entertaining your followers and has earned you so much respect!

@dkate1999 2 ай бұрын

Im Irish and a long time fan and have been hoping you would cover this topic for a while, thank you for shedding a light on the abuse these poor women underwent! I grew up beside the site of an old Magdalene laundry or “mother and baby home” as it was called, and along the big wall surrounding the grounds there’s hundreds of huge iron nails that the caretaker hammered into the wall to keep track of all the mothers and babies who had sadly died and were buried there😞 the babies that did survive were often taken from the mothers against their will and illegally adopted.

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

Lots of them sold to Americans, English and others who would pay them. My dad tried to deny the church doing it and not being true and then a few years later, they find out about an older sister. He doesn’t say it anymore

@laoisemichelle7445 2 ай бұрын

As an Irish subscriber and fan, I’m so happy you covered the Magdalene Laundries!! Ireland has so much dark history so I’m glad you got to cover this major topic! Love your story telling as always🫶

@silverghostcat1924 2 ай бұрын

Ireland is a prime example of why religion should not be in charge/control of the government. It never ends well for the citizens, particularly the women. In the US, the Christian Nationalists are trying their best to do away with the separation of church and state in order to force everyone to bend to their twisted ideas of Christianity.

@TruGhost. 2 ай бұрын

I hope Bailey does a cast that goes deeper into Ireland's (still some dark) Dark History! 🖤🤐👻.

@Ravewithme21 2 ай бұрын

What a terrible thing. And I had no idea the Magdalene Laundries even existed until today. My heart absolutely hurts for the women involved. Thank you for bringing these things to light Bailey.

@witchycherrri 2 ай бұрын

it makes me so sad to see how much generational trauma women have endured but also how grateful i am to have the opportunities that I do now in this life. they definitely didn’t deserve any of that mistreatment and it makes me feel honored to be a woman and be able to speak up now and help other women who are feeling abused.

@leedavis3704 2 ай бұрын

And then transgender men keep trying to destroy everything that is real women !

@Caoimhe10 2 ай бұрын

As an irish person i knew instantly waht this episode was about just by the title. Thank you for talking about this!

@ItsCookiePartyy 2 ай бұрын

Martha Cooney was one of the four women whose story was told in the movie, “The Magdalene Sisters.” She was assaulted by her cousin at a wedding in the movie and when she told her family the father sent her to the Laundries.

@mrmrshoffecker2887 2 ай бұрын

This is ACTIVELY occurring to this day in the US disguised as private alternative schools or behavioral health centers preying on families with "unruly" teens or young people with substance abuse problems looking at 24hr help as a last resort. Often they are abused in these situations and when investigated change their name, identifying numbers, and even locations. So, verifying a place is "safe" is made nearly impossible. What's crazy is these places often benefit from insurance carriers, yes even the so called private alternative schools... 😢

@ojd88 2 ай бұрын

Yup!!

@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 Ай бұрын

Oh yeah those f*cking “ranches” or whatever they’re trying to call them now!

@oliwiawalenciuk356 2 ай бұрын

I have been living in Ireland for the past 15 years, let me tell you the horrific realities of these mother and baby homes are still traumatising to many generations. So many women still don't know where their children are laid to rest. It's tragic and the worst part is that on record most commonly it was the family of these women who did this to them

@Whynotgarage 2 ай бұрын

This absolutely moved me to tears. All what those poor women went through is just absolutely unimaginable. And not knowing what they were going into and not knowing that almost all of them were not coming out is just absolutely and incredibly sad and heart breaking. And the worst part is that they trusted the church and they betrayed those women.

@daniellehopper8209 2 ай бұрын

When the best part of your day is your P B and J !!! Thanks Paul, Bailey and Joan, we appreciate you ❤

@CitiznDouchebag 2 ай бұрын

Haha. That was cute! 😆 ❤

@MsJoeq 2 ай бұрын

Bailey, you should look up Catherine Corless and her research into the mother and baby homes. Thank you for covering this, it still affects so many women today

@lynncrf 2 ай бұрын

Catherine Corless' work has been found to be pretty innacurate. I would choose the official government reports over her writings.

@noplainjanie 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for covering this. I'm American, and I was completely unaware this occurred. My heart goes out to the victims.

@astariehancock Ай бұрын

I really hope you see this Bailey!! I am from a small town in Kentucky where community is everything. We have our traditions and customs! A few years ago I think in 2018 (Don’t quote me on that) a woman by the name of Samantha Sperry went missing suddenly. Her story isn’t very known outside of Kentucky, and it has pretty much gone cold. I still look her name up every once in a while hoping that maybe she would be found somewhere safe. And I just really think her story deserves to be told to the whole world and maybe, just maybe it will help.

@suoniasmr 2 ай бұрын

Bailey Bailey Bailey! My Monday’s and Thursday’s are not the same without your videos!!!

@ariahv 2 ай бұрын

IN BAILEY WE TRUST

@pumpkin74 2 ай бұрын

Amen!!

@Faith_George 2 ай бұрын

This is a story that deserves to be told. I am glad that you shedding light on parts of history that might otherwise not be told. Thank you Bailey! 💜

@Emrose93 2 ай бұрын

What a story. All those poor women. Such a shameful and dark part of history.

@jademartin3191 2 ай бұрын

There’s a book called “the cruelty men” about this and it’s amazing and heartbreaking. I definitely recommend reading it!!

@elsiegraham4896 2 ай бұрын

Living in the North of Ireland we've still shards glass built into the tops of peoples walls to their back gardens to prevent thieves - Always imagined how BRUTAL it would be to climb!

@zanderisamazing5043 2 ай бұрын

Just think of the poor cats 😢 It's not as common now. Tbh one of the most horrendous stories I heard was about a house invasion. They got about £300, so ..

@irishalchemy 2 ай бұрын

Hi fellow Norn Iron-er! My primary school used to have those shards around some of the walls. Crazy.

@pinecone1321 2 ай бұрын

Courtyard compound walls in Mexico use broken bottles too.

@dawnkunkel2564 2 ай бұрын

I saw some of those glass-shard topped walls in New Orleans too…..

@immortalityevolution 2 ай бұрын

they're all over Latin America too 😅

@frankrobinson1322 2 ай бұрын

The Magdalene Laundries were just a great big rug, society and social conversation was a broom, out of sight, out of mind.What a dark existence that must have been.

@michellereilingh1776 2 ай бұрын

This episode was like a flash back to your episode on Canadian residential schools, I guess the Catholic church had a formula and stuck to it.

@samanthawood2879 2 ай бұрын

Geez 🤦‍♀️ I thought Bailey went and blacked out both of her arms🤷‍♀️ 😂

@danyamariegeddes8320 2 ай бұрын

I thought that for a second too

@shannonebarb1659 2 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing till I looked closer and realized Bailey is wearing a black, long sleeved shirt on that got bleach on it.😂😂😂😂😂

@bsHunts 2 ай бұрын

This episode is scarily similar to the Indigenous schools that were found in Canada, also the Catholic church if i remember correctly. Love the way you tell history Bailey! Keep being the amazing soul that you are!

@iriswright5060 2 ай бұрын

Thankfully though they have not found any actual bodies buried at the schools. I'm sure the schools were terrible but the story of the unmarked graves is not quite what it seemed to be when it first came out.

@1177artemis 2 ай бұрын

My continuous thought while watching this is exactly that. If the Catholic Church can treat white women in this despicable manner, the atrocities that indigenous people experienced are insurmountable.

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

@@1177artemisbeing a woman means mistreatment, as did being Irish. So to be both…

@rdmoonchildxo 2 ай бұрын

@@iriswright5060there's actually over 12 thousand found bodies , some are under the age of 3. They found bodies at the schools ( 10 out of over 100. ) so imagine how many other missing children are still out there out of the other 90 that they didnt look for

@iriswright5060 2 ай бұрын

@@rdmoonchildxo "No evidence of human remains has been found during the excavation of a Catholic church basement on the site of a former Manitoba residential school. Chief Derek Nepinak of Minegoziibe Anishinabe shared the results of the search in a social media video."

@alisonpage5994 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for highlighting this! I love my country but there are so many wrongs that need to be spoken about. The Tuam mass grave is just one example 😢

@Atomic.Dawson Ай бұрын

Ive been watching your videos for years. You never fail to make me smile. Even if the subject matter is horrible, you know just the perfect amount of snark and satire to sprinkle throughout. It comes naturally to you, and in this plastic, Barbie world we DEFINITELY need more Baileys!Keep it up, Doll! 💞✌️💞

@romanab.v.2090 2 ай бұрын

Philomena is a fantastic film about one Woman's experience.and journey to find her son after it was illegally given in to adoption form the laundry.

@al333ly 2 ай бұрын

Brilliant movie. Those nuns were so nasty and vindictive.

@Boscoronibelieves 2 ай бұрын

Watched that years ago and still remember how sad some of was

@Kaitlynn502Kentucky 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful Bailey. I've been away so long. Hope everyone reading this is having a beautiful smooth day.

@carmengracepuentes7953 2 ай бұрын

Thank you likewise ❤

@tvbrain22 Ай бұрын

a distant relative (woman) of mine, had a baby out of wedlock. the day she delivered the baby, her child was ripped out of her arms, and "sent away" without her consent. The mother was then (again without her consent) was send to live in a place that sounds like this, (asylum) because she was not "emotionally well" (after being ripped apart from her newborn!!) . Eventually years down the road the mom and baby (an adult now) got reconnected . so sad what many woman have gone through, still go through .

@laurab.e.k.7437 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much bailey.these voices need to be heard But please know the mass graves were filled with countless babies too. It's so important we acknowledge they were here. Love from ireland

@janiceahern 2 ай бұрын

This.

@karmagal78 2 ай бұрын

They were as bad as the asylums over here in the US. I’m still surprised that my great grandmother wasn’t sent to an asylum for her epilepsy, as that was one of the ways that you could be entered into an asylum at the time.

@jennifersaunders5547 2 ай бұрын

Same ! But I'm Canadian. But my great grandmother too. So much misdiagnosis back then

@jennifersaunders5547 2 ай бұрын

Same ! But I'm Canadian. But my great grandmother too. So much misdiagnosis back then

@ainemcglone0528 2 ай бұрын

As an Irish woman, I thank you for bringing light to these horrible "homes", I feel as though people are forgetting the horrors that these women were forced through thank you Bailey 🩷🩷

@lauragrist8329 2 ай бұрын

I saw the Magdalene Sisters (film) as a child and it traumatised me. I can’t even begin to imagine what the INNOCENT VICTIMS went through. This History makes me so angry; I can’t even form a sentence to explain it. Thank you for covering it Bailey. ❤

@caligoldsg Күн бұрын

Wow in from San Francisco and I'm just now hearing of this General Hospital is what it is now

@Dunkin0708 Ай бұрын

This is almost word for word, modern day rehab in America.

@annemariedonaghy1602 2 ай бұрын

FYI. The "famine" was actually a genocide of the Irish people by the British. They wouldn't have starved if their crops weren't taken from them.

@aoifebyrne912 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing this out! Was searching for a comment that corrected the ‘Potato Famine’ statement, a story that the whole world was told to cover up the oppression of the Irish at that time

@irishalchemy 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, Bailey made the same mistake as us... She forgot about the British.

@Leah-xu2fd 2 ай бұрын

I remember watching the movie as a teenager. It was one of those first instances of rage induced by learning humanities history. I wasn't shocked, but I was deeply saddened learning about these laundries.

@judgesjudily 2 ай бұрын

Here in Ireland, everyone knows someone who has literal horror stories from a family member or family friends passed down from women who spent time in these places. Horrific, nuns are evil. Religion in general make me furious 🤬

@user-mm5cp5fl7r 2 ай бұрын

Hi Bailey I was asking if you could do a dark history of troubled teen programs like ivy ridge and turunabout ranch

@user-fk7yn3wu8j 2 ай бұрын

Yessss

@taylordenton6253 2 ай бұрын

Bailey you should do a dark history about Cruises. I just went on one for my honeymoon. I always wondered how we went from pirates on the seas to these giant cruise ships that have bars, resturaunts and water slides on them

@phoebestone1694 2 ай бұрын

The dark history would be the current day treatment of employees 💔

@chance2413 Ай бұрын

Germans

@MJHeiser 2 ай бұрын

You're not wrong about Mary Magdalene. There are two different women involved, and the Catholic Church decided to deprioritize her by getting them "confused" like, ALL the time.

@samanthavandusen 2 ай бұрын

Exactly, they did this on purpose

@christibozeman7087 2 ай бұрын

Yep… thanks to the Catholic Church 🤦🏽‍♀️.

@emilyjanecato3326 2 ай бұрын

That institution has a bad track record.

@colleenwithers6793 2 ай бұрын

I've never heard this

@tarynalford07 2 ай бұрын

Yes, and Mary Magdalene was possessed by demons and Jesus healed her. And if I remember correctly it was a different Mary that washed Jesus’s feet. I want to say it was the Mary that was sisters to Martha. I could be wrong. I’ll have to ask my Sunday School teacher next time I see him.

@tdsollog 2 ай бұрын

Religion: “saving humanity” while torturing them. Thank you for continuing to shed light on abuse.

@dookieshreds1028 Ай бұрын

Wow this is insane. 230 years!? When you did 1970s I was like WHAT? THIS WAS WHEN???

@rebelsporthorses3148 Ай бұрын

This happened up until the 90s

@ruby7uesday769 2 ай бұрын

The show The Women in the Wall on Paramount+ details this, especially the mother and baby home aspect, it was well done highly reccomend

@lucyherrera8575 Ай бұрын

I was going to reference this show too! I watched it about a month ago and immediately started researching the "laundries". I couldn't believe this was based on actual events 😳 Although, if Dark History has taught me anything is that real life is more horrific than fiction 😢 I was so excited to hear Bailey covering this 🙌🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@irishis3 2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you're covering this shameful part of Ireland and the Catholic church. Watch out America this could be your future.

@teapot6219 2 ай бұрын

Why could this be Americas future? What a weird thing to say....

@kelseycoyote6576 2 ай бұрын

It's already happening. The GOP's 2025 includes more rights taken from us. Vote blue!

@amiiann 2 ай бұрын

@@teapot6219 have you looked at the state of women's rights in America lately?

@samanthavandusen 2 ай бұрын

@@teapot6219umm, actually America already done it, what are you talking about? Lol unless your not American, then maybe you don't know about us

@ELEMENTARYWATSON52 2 ай бұрын

@@amiiannAgreed.

@alannadoyle8859 2 ай бұрын

The college I go to was actually an old Magdalene laundry we still use the same clothes rollers as they did for art printing it’s so disgusting knowing the history 🤢

@ojd88 2 ай бұрын

Which college?

@alannadoyle8859 2 ай бұрын

@@ojd88 Waterford

@Witchy14 2 ай бұрын

I’m shocked you left out the fact they found a mass grave of baby’s, some apparently even found in an old septic tank. A truly horrible story, but that added on just makes it feel surreal!

@joewhite9037 2 ай бұрын

“ The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I am from the government and I’m here to help.”- Ronald Regan.

@nataliemcd9318 Ай бұрын

THIS ONE

@celinamanuelita4687 2 ай бұрын

This was a MESSED up Dark History!!! Thank you Bailey, you've done it again!

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

Ireland is rife with it, if you want to keep looking

@ashleybright3727 Ай бұрын

I know a woman whose mother was sent to a “Mother and Baby Home” in the early 60’s when she got pregnant at 16. She was forced to give up her daughter for adoption. This was in in the U.S. It’s important to remember that this happened in our country too. It’s incredibly shameful and horrible what these women (and their children) went through.

@maddieduffy1446 2 ай бұрын

Haven’t watched yet but the title alone brought back horrible memories of Irish secondary school where we learned about the Magdalene Laundries, 30-odd teens traumatized all at once

@anonymoose116 2 ай бұрын

Bailey: I WAS SHOOKETH

@Peachydee 2 ай бұрын

Congratulations we are now one of Bailey’s elite first 10 minutes of her video dropping viewers 😂💕

@chantelle1304 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Bailey for shedding light & education of the world's history. As the saying goes - knowledge IS power! I have been on my personal journey to take in as much knowledge as i can & turn it into wisdom! Thank you for making learning fun. I hope they use your podcasts in schools. I wish i had you when i was in school when we had to write reports! I totally would have credited you as a reputable source 💯

@aoifebyrne912 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for covering this story and spreading awareness about the horrors that went on in Ireland at this time! However, seeing that you mentioned the ‘Potato Famine’, I’d love to see you do a video about what really happened during this time. There was the potato blight but the English government did not stop the export of food out of Ireland during this time. Therefore leading to the Famine. The thought that we can only grow potato crops in Ireland is false. We could grow other crops, just none of that food grown was allowed to be consumed by the Irish, leading to starvation and roughly a million deaths.

@PucaFlea 2 ай бұрын

Yeah the whole “potato blight caused it” is still what everyone outside Ireland think, when really it was genocide. Starving people dying in the fields eating grass and turnips, because there was nothing else. Ireland had plenty of food. It was just shipped home by the British. Shame that people still don’t know that and just repeat about potato blight.

@suemccarthy3195 2 ай бұрын

I asked you to this a while back... thanks more ppl should know about our so called church

@AllisonLitch 2 ай бұрын

Love when as soon as you open KZfaq a new Bailey video is the first video on your feed. Gotta be my lucky day I should go buy a lotto ticket lol❤❤❤❤

@funaystuffable 2 ай бұрын

The "...and any unwanted women..." part is such a spit to the face

@simplyspice7916 2 ай бұрын

Sucker Punch is a movie that reminds me of what she is describing. Also, there is an artist called Emilie Autumn and she wrote a book titled, "The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls"....It has illustrated pages and the story is VERY reminiscent of what Bailey is describing 😢

@emily.toombs Ай бұрын

Nobody does crimes against humanity like the Catholic Church. No atrocity too great, no victim to young.

@chloehalpin1632 2 ай бұрын

Can’t believe you’re covering this! Many people know about these horrific events but there was also similar goings on in the Christian brother schools, young boys “disappearing” and experiencing horrendous abuse. Letterfrack to name one. All accountable for the huge demise in the Catholic faith in Ireland.

@grainne18 2 ай бұрын

My granny and her sister was put in a magdalen laundry because their mother passed and their father was waiting to remarry This episode is very close to home

@macykooser6491 2 ай бұрын

With it snowing hella bad here in Colorado this is the perfect thing for some coffee and relaxation while pregnant ❤ love these days

@luv2disney214 2 ай бұрын

Was so excited to watch this!! Learning about this in an Irish catholic school is way different than listening to you 😂😂😂 they really underplayed the severity of the laundries 😮

@marietighe6328 2 ай бұрын

Your (😂😂😂😂) emoji is pretty bizarre. Who the Eff does that?

@stevenandcarminabeedle9089 Ай бұрын

Of course they did.

@alxee1203 2 ай бұрын

I don’t know why. But this was one of my favourite ones. Poor survivors. Wish they all got their money. Crazy it would be offered, then not provided to all. How brave of them to speak out. Shocking that was still open until the 90s.

@alxee1203 2 ай бұрын

Bailey you were at your best. Research was fantastic and this was such an important story to get out. ❤️thank you

@Vickydee 2 ай бұрын

Can you do a dark history about the residential schools in Canada?? It’s so similar to this story except children who were taken from their families to be assimilated 😢 it went on for years and only ended recently. They found mass graves during the pandemic

@ivy3723 Ай бұрын

And people say the storylines in the handmaids tale could never happen, like it already has..

@mollywilliams1978 2 ай бұрын

Bailey!!! I love Mondays and Thursdays! 😁

@21rabbit88 2 ай бұрын

Right

@dizzyspinner2205 2 ай бұрын

Im so proud of you bailey! I have been watching your videos since you only posted them on fb and you have come so far and accomplished so much! Keep doing a great job and thanks for all you do to keep us entertained and informed