Louise Brangan

About The Author

Dr. Louise Brangan is an Irish academic who researches injustice and punishment. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker, the playwright of The Ireland We Dreamed Of, and winner of the 2024 RSL Giles St Aubyn Award. She lives and works in Scotland.

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Books by Louise Brangan

The Fallen

The Lost Girls of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries and a Legacy of Silence

By Louise Brangan

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE

A haunting and brilliantly researched history which interrogates the culture of shame in Ireland, and tells the full story, for the first time, of the women confined within the walls of the Magdalene Laundries in the 20th century...

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