Martin Chilton shares his reading highlights for April T his book aims to give voice to the women who were silenced and controlled,” writes Louise Brangan in her compelling The Magdalene Laundries & Ireland’s Legacy of Silence (Bodley Head). Dr Brangan details the way women and young girls were abused, dehumanised and vilified in what were effectively detention and forced labour camps for so-called “fallen women” . The last Magdalene laundry did not close until 1996. They were run by Catholic