Dublin by Lamplight or the Lamplight Laundry, at 35 Ballsbridge Terrace,

Ballsbridge Ballsbridge () (from historic Ball's Bridge) is an affluent neighbourhood of the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. The area is largely situated north and west of a three-arch stone bridge across the River Dodder, on the south side of the ...

, Dublin, was a Protestant-run

Magdalene Laundry Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalene laundries (named after the Biblical figure Mary Magdalene), were initially Protestant but later mostly Roman Catholic institutions that operated from the 18th to the late 20th centuries, ostensibly to ...

, founded in 1856, that like other such laundries housed so-called "fallen women". It was administered by a committee of Anglican women, a matron, and a chaplain who was a

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priest. The motto of the asylum was "That they may recover themselves out of the snares of the devil" (II Timothy 2:24). A chaplain and secretary to the laundry, Rev. Dr. James S. Fletcher DD (parish priest of Brookfield, Milltown Co. Dublin), wrote a paper titled ''Our Female Penitentiaries can be made self-supporting!'', which was discussed at the International Prison Congress. The site of the institution has been redeveloped. There is a campaign to have the location commemorated with a plaque.

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Dubliners ''Dubliners'' is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were writ ...

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