Cillian Murphy calls Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries scandal a ‘collective trauma’
Eileen Walsh and Cillian Murphy pose at the 'Small Things Like These' photocall during the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin. Picture: Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images
Learning about the abuses of the church in the “dysfunctional Christian society” of 1980s Ireland amounted to a “collective trauma” that has still not been fully processed, actor Cillian Murphy said as a new film set against the backdrop of the Magdalene Laundries scandal premiered at the Berlin film festival.
In , the star plays Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man who accidentally becomes aware of abuse happening at the local convent in New Ross, southwest Co Wexford, Ireland.
