Hear from Louise Brangan, author of The Fallen: The Magdalene Laundries and Ireland’s Legacy of Silence and Lara Feigel, author of Custody: The Secret History of Mothers: two authors shining their light on secret corners of opaque and misogynistic systems. 🎫 ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

@louisebrangan.bsky.social traces the disappearances of girls in 20th century Ireland.

I never doubted it for a single second. But everyone can be assured the future of the @howardjournalcj.bsky.social is in the best possible hands onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A very good book on the history of an important privacy tool.

Almost there…there's no one I find more unrelatable than people who say things like “I cannot wait to see my book published!!”. The prospect of publishing is always one of the most nerve wracking feelings. Even as a selfconfessed publishing scaredy-cat, this does feel scarier than most...1

"art about the laundries shouldn’t frame their horrors as a matter of public revelation...The point may not be exposure, but a refusal to collude in the silence." www.frieze.com/article/arti... Really considered review of our exhbition in Frieze today

Our exhibition is extended now until 9 August. And here a review in @irishtimes.com from Derek Scally www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... ££

Derek Scally: Some people knew about the Magdalene Laundries, some didn’t - but the silent majority knew not to know

We are still looking to speak with people who worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any time during 1970-2010. Interested in sharing your stories? Please get in touch (DM or email [email protected]) - we would love to hear from you! See further info in poster @louisebrangan.bsky.social

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#speirgorm www.irishpost.com/news/legacy-...

Opening this week, runs 12 June- 26 July

📌 Call for interview participants 📌 We (me and @louisebrangan.bsky.social) are looking to interview people who have worked as prison officers in Irish prisons at any point during 1970-2010. See further info in poster image. If you're interested in taking part, please consider getting in touch.

New exhibition, LAB gallery, Dublin: What does it mean to know? Sinead McCann & I have two sculptural pieces. They're about Magdalene Laundries, but not the past. They are about the present, today, us, and the ways we remember (and misremember)the Laundries dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-p...

Very exciting to have @louisebrangan.bsky.social at our ICCJ seminars at the end of this month! Join us on the 28 of May in the School of Social Sciences if you wished to know about Magdalene Laundries 🔔📣 @qubcriminology.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Really happy that the articles in a themed issue of Incarceration on the Moral and Ethical Worlds of Coercive Confinement, edited by me and Ryan Williams, are beginning to come out. Over the next few days, I'll post about them all, starting with our prologue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

To all lovely critical thoughtful criminology (and adjacent) ECRs and MCRs, see the call for this incredible conference. Not just for scholars of punishment - any aspects of institutional crim, control, or other critical criminological scholarship v welcome. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Louise Brangan is giving a talk on her research on the Irish Magdalene laundries called 'Purging the Crisis'. Wed 29 Jan, 4pm, Hybrid www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... @louisebrangan.bsky.social

Last Christmas, I organised a “fun” themed panel called “Histories of the Present”. And like the aspiring cool person I am, I asked AI to generate a picture of Foucault at Christmas with presents. He looks like a man who has made the best possible life out of being placed in witness protection.