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Re: The Abuse of Irish Babies and Children
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Pauline Fayne Jul. 19, 2009.
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Thank you Terrance. I have just found the audio recordings. this is great stuff as i have always wanted to read Ulysses but never got round to it. Well now I can listen to it. I have become more interested in James Joyce as I am doing a family tree…
June 16 is Bloomsday & we're going to focus on ONE episode of Ulysses for that day.
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Thank you for your reply to the above discussion. I too have memories of being physically beaten by the Nuns. I have heard Michael O Brien's moving account of his experiences and I am in awe of his courage and bravery. I have worked for many…
Hey Terrance, I really like Cajun music and I'm saving it to 'my favourites'. You are an erudite man and blessed with noble ecclesiastics and I particularly like your point 3 above. It only takes a few bad apples and the barrel is ruined. I know man…
Terrance, it looks like momentum is gathering here to pursue the offenders who are still alive. Mainly because of the public outcry over a reluctance of the orders to give them up. You're right about the 1930's-'80's involvement of church in state m…
Sadly Karl it's not the end of the revelations. The Dublin Diocesan Report is due for publishing soon and it promised to be another bombshell of depravity. Education has to be taken out of the hands of the religeous orders. Will the politicians has…
Hi Cathy,
I have being following the story about this from my home in Birmingham in England. It is quite unbelievable what happened. What's sadder is that every knew and did nothing: the church, the state and we Irish ourlselves. What happened? Wha…
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- At 9:31pm on November 18, 2009,
gerry mcnally said… - Hello Cathy and good to hear from you.
There is much I love about Ireland. I just spent an hour last night listening on Utube to people like Paul Brady, Johnny McEvoy and Christy Moore singing the songs i love to hear. I go back every year to see family---I also go to London each year to see family--and it will always be my first love. but we need to see that we are no different from anywhere else in terms of ability to go wrong , and to be fooled. Island of saints and scholars? Maybe but I would add the courageous people who came forth and persisted in telling about the abuse done to them until someone listened and till the whole country listened.
- At 7:39pm on November 17, 2009,
gerry mcnally said…
- Dear Cathy,
I was in Dublin last year in May when the report became public. It was like the country became mad. I would take the bus into the city, and the talk shows had person after person, telling for the first time what had been done to them. Growing up in Donegal in the 50s and 60s, I never heard a whisper about abuse by the Catholic Institutions. First I heard was a Program on CBC Radio in Canada, A documentary on the Madelene Laundries, over ten years ago.
We were fooled, by people who thought that what they were giving us was so important, we didn't deserve to know the truth. Those people were denied basic human rights, by a hierarchy who believed they were closer to God than anyone. Enough said--for now.
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