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Bishop meets Derry man searching for the 'truth' about his mother

A local man whose mother lived in a Good Shepherd Home for 25 years has thanked the Bishop of Derry Donal McKeown for showing a level of ‘compassion’ that has been missing for decades. However, Robert O’Connor also made it clear that the Catholic ...

18 Feb 2021 at 11:55

Derry News

‘How many people in that grave have the right names?’

Bridget O’Connor was the sixth of nineteen laundry women to be buried in a communal grave at Ardmore Cemetery. More importantly, she was a mother to four children. But because she was not married those children were taken away from her. As ...

01 Feb 2021 at 11:52

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Derry woman: ‘Life in the Good Shepherd laundry was like being in jail’

A Derry woman who as a child spent years in a Good Shepherd convent has likened the church run institution to a prison. Caroline Magee was 11-years-old when her mother sent her to the Good Shepherd Home and Laundry on Dungiven Road. She ...

08 Feb 2021 at 15:08

Derry News

Remembering the 'voiceless' women of Derry's Good Shepherd laundry

A simple headstone at Ardmore Cemetery in Derry commemorates the dates five former residents of the Good Shepherd’s Laundry died. They, along with hundreds of others, worked in the local laundry without pay. Some women spent a lifetime ...

28 Jan 2021 at 13:11

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