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Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the setting
is mainly 1963 in a convent laundry in rural Ireland. Eclipsed
was inspired by the practice - which started in the time of
the Famine, and lasted well into the 1960s - of making pregnant
and unwed Irish mothers work as "penitents" in church-run
laundries, known as the Magdalene laundries. Supervised by
nuns, the women were treated as virtual slaves and their infants
were forcibly put up for adoption.
Patricia Burke Brogan's play "Eclipsed" won, among many others,
a Fringe First Award at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival."
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