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Mon 04 Apr 2008Cruelty hidden in plain view
The Arts:Boston-based academic James M Smith needed the distance of living abroad to write his new book about the Irish women who suffered incarceration in the Magdalen laundries. And it's a subject that 'is not finished business', he tells Gemma Tipton
ANGER AND OUTRAGE are not necessarily emotions one would expect from a literary critic, but Boston-based academic James M Smith has struggled to come to terms with both while working on his new book, Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment.
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