Playwright, poet and artist Patricia Burke Brogan, who has died in her 90s, played a crucial role in exposing the hidden reality of the Magdalene Laundries. Her successful 1992 play, Eclipsed, was based on her experience as a novice in the order of the Sisters of Mercy. She worked in ...
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