“Women and children were not afforded the rights of citizenship, of subjecthood, of being. They lived under threat of being erased, hidden, buried. This is why my mother tells me - halting, hesitating - that in her day it was the worst thing in the world for a girl to find herself pregnant, but worse still was for her to talk about it.” PregnancyWomens RightsForgettingComplicityIrish HistoryUnmarried WomenSilencing WomenMagdalene Laundries Book:In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History Source: In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History