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This haunting and immersive book shines a light on the dark history of Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries.

'Compelling, measured and deeply felt' ANNE ENRIGHT
'A terrific yet harrowing unearthing of Ireland's shadowland. A landmark book' RORY CARROLL

Following independence in 1922, Ireland began to chase a dream: to become the perfect Catholic nation. But purity had a price. Throughout the twentieth century, thousands of women and girls who did not conform – the wayward, the poor, the disabled, the abused – were sent to Magdalene Laundries. Each was perceived to have fallen in some way. Once locked inside, their hair was shorn off, their names were erased and then they were put to work. They washed, they scrubbed and they prayed, labouring in often indefinite captivity in an attempt to salvage their souls.

When the gates of the last Laundry closed in 1996, Ireland moved on. Or so it seemed. This has remained one of the darkest and most misunderstood periods of recent history. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the last Laundry’s closure, The Fallen is the forgotten story of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, told through the voices of those who endured them, the nuns who presided over them and the communities who lived alongside them.

Unflinching and compassionate, Louise Brangan recovers the lives of women and girls on their harrowing journeys into, through and beyond the walls of these places of violence and secrecy. Drawing on archives and survivors’ testimonies, she dismantles long-held myths about what the Laundries were, who was sent there, and why. She compels us not only to confront this shameful past, but to ask a deeper question: what do we choose to remember?

Winner of the 2024 Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award