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Cillian Murphy: Small Things Like These film tries to stay ‘faithful to book’

The film is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, about Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries.

Evening Standard · Oct 24, 2024

Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy’s piercingly painful Magdalene Laundries drama

Murphy plays a man who witnesses Ireland’s church’s abusive workhouses for unwed mothers in an absorbing Dickensian story based on recent history

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2024

Cillian Murphy calls Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries scandal a ‘collective trauma’

The Oppenheimer actor spoke about the abuses at the homes for unwed women ahead of the premiere of Small Things Like These, the new film about the scandal, at the Berlin film festival

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024

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The week in TV: The Woman in the Wall; David Hockney: A Celebration; The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies; Starstruck – review

A blazing Ruth Wilson elevates a turbulent drama about Ireland’s Magdalene laundries; Hockney and Bragg make a classy double act; and a female revenge fantasy goes to the dark side

The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2023

Is The Woman in The Wall based on a true story? Everything we know about the BBC drama

Is The Woman in The Wall based on a true story? Here's everything we know about the harrowing BBC drama starring Ruth Wilson.

GoodToKnow · Aug 27, 2023

TV tonight: Ruth Wilson stars in a nightmarish Irish thriller

The Woman in the Wall tells the story of the Magdalene Laundries. Plus, a murder investigation involving tarot readers and psychics. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2023

Ruth Wilson & Daryl McCormack on The Woman in the Wall: ‘Women’s bodies are often at the heart of oppression’

The new six-part BBC drama explores the infamous Magdalene Laundries and left its stars haunted by its true stories

Evening Standard · Aug 22, 2023

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Plaques marking sites of Magdalene Laundries and institutions to be rolled out in city

Many people suffered horrific abuse in the Magdalene Laundries, industrial schools and other institutions across Dublin

Dublin Live · Mar 24, 2023

Peaky Blinders star to feature in new BBC series inspired by Ireland's controversial Magdalene Laundries

The six part thriller will star Ruth Wilson and Daryl McCormack

Irish Mirror · Aug 18, 2022

Survivors of mother and baby homes and workhouses urged to speak to police

Police are investigating allegations of abuse at the institutions across Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2022

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