Dublin by Lamplight

Dublin by Lamplight or the Lamplight Laundry, at 35 Ballsbridge Terrace, Ballsbridge, Dublin, was a Protestant-run Magdalene Laundry, founded in 1856, that like other such laundries housed so-called "fallen women".[1][2] It was administered by a committee of Anglican women, a matron, and a chaplain who was a Church of Ireland priest. The motto of the asylum was "That they may recover themselves out of the snares of the devil" (II Timothy 2:24).[3][better source needed]

A chaplain and secretary to the laundry, Rev. Dr. James S. Fletcher DD (parish priest of Brookfield, Milltown Co. Dublin), wrote a paper titled Our Female Penitentiaries can be made self-supporting!, which was discussed at the International Prison Congress.[4]

The site of the institution has been redeveloped. There is a campaign to have the location commemorated with a plaque.[5]

It was mentioned in James Joyce's short story Clay in Dubliners.[6]

References

  1. ^ Oram, Hugh (2014). The Little Book of Ballsbridge. Dublin: The History Press. p. 68. ISBN 9780750958295.
  2. ^ Eide, Marian (2011). "James Joyce's Magdalenes". College Literature. 38 (4). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 57–75. doi:10.1353/lit.2011.0043. JSTOR 41302888. S2CID 220827432.
  3. ^ Gifford, Don (1982). Joyce Annotated: Notes for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Berkeley, California, USA: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520046108.
  4. ^ Circular[s] of Information, Page. 235, Volume 10, Issues 1-4 By United States. Office of Education, 1891.
  5. ^ Whelan, Zuzia (28 November 2018). "The City Should Mark the Sites of All Long-Gone Magdalene Laundries, Some Councillors Say". Dublin Inquirer. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  6. ^ Joyce, James (2006). Norris, Margot (ed.). Dubliners. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 82, footnote 1. ISBN 978-0-393-97851-3.