A very good book on the history of an important privacy tool.
28.10.2025 12:36
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A very good book on the history of an important privacy tool.
thank you, Harry!
There are no heroes either,or clean lines of goodies and baddies. It is instead an attempt to understand this past, in its own terms, told from the voices of the women who were sent there, those intent on controlling them, and the society that accepted the Laundries as a prosaic part of Irish life.
Making it feel all the more controversial to point out what we have overlooked, ignored and perhaps wished were not true about this history. Maybe what I fear is controversial is that this book is not about blame, I think we have gotten as far as we can with that line of historical interrogation..3
The Laundries have been discussed, dissected and pronounced upon. We have rendered them in every art form. But the more we talked, the more a narrow set of conventions for what and how we can remember them came to take hold...2
Almost there…there's no one I find more unrelatable than people who say things like “I cannot wait to see my book published!!”. The prospect of publishing is always one of the most nerve wracking feelings. Even as a selfconfessed publishing scaredy-cat, this does feel scarier than most...1
Should your child be gifted it, then —and I say this in my best Werner Herzog voice — you must never open it. You must never play with it.
I suspect it will be Kinetic sand that will cause the ultimate collapse of the planet, perhaps humanity in general.
No, I am afraid not, Julian. However, I do have this essay available open access, if that is any use: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Otherwise, thank you so much for going to see the exhibition and for giving it such an extensive and positive write up.
"art about the laundries shouldn’t frame their horrors as a matter of public revelation...The point may not be exposure, but a refusal to collude in the silence." www.frieze.com/article/arti... Really considered review of our exhbition in Frieze today
Our exhibition is extended now until 9 August. And here a review in @irishtimes.com from Derek Scally www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... ££
Derek Scally: Some people knew about the Magdalene Laundries, some didn’t - but the silent majority knew not to know
We are still looking to speak with people who worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any time during 1970-2010. Interested in sharing your stories? Please get in touch (DM or email colette.barry1@ucd.ie) - we would love to hear from you! See further info in poster @louisebrangan.bsky.social
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Opening this week, runs 12 June- 26 July
Call for participants Did you work as a prison officer in Ireland during 1970-2010? We are collecting an oral history of prison officer work in Ireland during 1970-2010 We want to learn about your experiences and memories of working in Irish prisons during this period Research team: Dr Louise Brangan, University of Strathclyde Dr Colette Barry, University College Dublin What's involved? Taking part in an interview (in-person or via Zoom) with one of the researchers This will cover your experiences and perspectives on working as a prison officer Who can take part? We want to interview people who worked as prison officers in any Irish prison(s) at any time during 1970-2010 This includes people who currently work as prison officers and people who have retired or moved on from this work. All participation is voluntary and confidential Interested in participating or would like more information? Please contact: Colette.Barry1@ucd.ie Ethical approval granted by University of Strathclyde Ethics Committee. Research approval granted by Irish Prison Service Research Office.
📌 Call for interview participants 📌
We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.
Congrats Máiréad!
Thank you so much for your interest, Nancy.
Ah! wonderful if you make it. At some point I am going to have to bring some of this stuff to Scotland!
New exhibition, LAB gallery, Dublin: What does it mean to know?
Sinead McCann & I have two sculptural pieces. They're about Magdalene Laundries, but not the past. They are about the present, today, us, and the ways we remember (and misremember)the Laundries dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-p...
Thanks for coming, Teresa, and for such great questions. Im only sorry we didn’t actually get a chance to chat more.
Very exciting to have @louisebrangan.bsky.social at our ICCJ seminars at the end of this month! Join us on the 28 of May in the School of Social Sciences if you wished to know about Magdalene Laundries 🔔📣 @qubcriminology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
Really happy that the articles in a themed issue of Incarceration on the Moral and Ethical Worlds of Coercive Confinement, edited by me and Ryan Williams, are beginning to come out. Over the next few days, I'll post about them all, starting with our prologue:
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To all lovely critical thoughtful criminology (and adjacent) ECRs and MCRs, see the call for this incredible conference. Not just for scholars of punishment - any aspects of institutional crim, control, or other critical criminological scholarship v welcome. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Louise Brangan is giving a talk on her research on the Irish Magdalene laundries called 'Purging the Crisis'.
Wed 29 Jan, 4pm, Hybrid
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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An elder Foucault in a Santa hat enjoying family Christmas.
Last Christmas, I organised a “fun” themed panel called “Histories of the Present”. And like the aspiring cool person I am, I asked AI to generate a picture of Foucault at Christmas with presents. He looks like a man who has made the best possible life out of being placed in witness protection.