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‘The Mother Superior opens another heavy double-locked door. A deafening noise hits us. We’re in a room with huge machines from which steam is hissing. Prison bar patterns the roof-windows. The greasy walls are sweating. There is a stench of soiled clothing. Bleach fumes sting my throat, I gasp for air. Gradually I see that the room is full of women: elderly women, middle-aged women and young girls all seem to merge with the gray of the womb-like washing machines.’ ‘With Grykes and Turloughs’, 2014 IT’S NOT that Patricia Burke-Brogan needed the Freedom of Galway City that she was recently awarded as some kind of vindication. However, this recognition was long overdue and its importance to her and the movement for change she represented cannot be understated, as it came with the acceptance in the corridors of power that she had been right all along. Right to walk away from her convent in Galway in the mid-1950s when she was …
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