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Reimagining Ireland (English version) · Nov 11, 2019 · 31 min

04 Magdalene Laundries and the Maze Prison: Digging in the Uncomfortable Past

Podcast series from the Center for Irish Studies at Aarhus University. Laura McAtackney is Associate Professor of Archeology at Aarhus University. Unlike most other archaeologists, she does not dig in the past - but in the present. What becomes heritage? What can we remember and what do we tend to forget? Laura McAtckney's research has brought her to Irish prisons and institutions such as a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the Long Kesh Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

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Podcast series from the Center for Irish Studies at Aarhus University. Laura McAtackney is Associate Professor of Archeology at Aarhus University. Unlike most other archaeologists, she does not dig in the past - but in the present. What becomes heritage? What can we remember and what do we tend to forget? Laura McAtckney's research has brought her to Irish prisons and institutions such as a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the Long Kesh Maze prison in Northern Ireland.