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Eclipsed

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Author Brogan, Patrici Burke Published by Wordsonthestreet ISBN 9780955260445 EAN 9780955260445 Bic Code D Cover Paperback

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Description

Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the play is set in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul’s Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. ‘Eclipsed’ explores the practice of making pregnant and unwed Irish mothers work as ‘penitents’ in church-run laundries.