The Forgotten Maggies | movie | 2009 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Have you ever wondered what happened to the girls that entered and left the Magdalene

00:04 laundries in Ireland? Have you ever wondered what happened to those who were left behind

00:10 or even died? For the first time on Irish television, several Magdalene women come together

00:17 and tell their experiences of what they suffered.

00:24 We were classed as nothing. We were told that we came from nothing, we never will be anything

00:31 and we will always go back to being nothing.

00:36 We must tell the truth here. We were child slaves. I never got educated for that, at

00:43 all.

00:48 The only time I fell was when I was bloody hungry and fell down with the hunger. My brother

00:54 didn't know me when he came to the door.

00:57 The Forgotten Maggies premieres on Irish television for the first time Wednesday 20th July 9.30pm.

01:04 TG Carr, Siúil a le.

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