The Good Shepherd Centre, Upper Ormeau Road
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The Good Shepherd Centre, Upper Ormeau Road
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 17 Feb 2015
This sprawling brick built campus of Victorian buildings was erected as a convent for the Sisters of the Good Shepherd an order which in Belfast, as in the rest of Ireland, ran the infamous Magdalen Laundries. Here "fallen women" were used as cheap labour in laundering the dirty washing of Belfast's upper and middle classes. Belfast also had equally notorious Church of Ireland and Presbyterian Magdalen laundries which "cared" for Protestant unmarried mothers. The Magdalen Laundry at Belfast's Good Shepherd Convent remained in existence until 1977. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/patrick-corrigan/magdalene-laundries-north-irelands-shame_b_2712206.html
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Image Location
Latitude
54.572287
Longitude
-5.916341