On the new Tuam movie
Scapegoating.
There is such a thing as decency and the hysterical, inaccurate reporting around Tuam isn’t it.
If one could previously have said metaphorically that digging up the past was a favourite pastime of modern Ireland, we can now say it literally.
“Why are these orders not being raided by the Gardaí?”
If this news strikes you as odd, then just imagine how it might be received in Áras an Uachtaráin.
A test case may be warranted here at least first before the domestic courts.
On Wednesday last the Social Democrats introduced a Private Members Motion in the Dáil that called on the Government to extend the term of the Mother and Baby Home Commission for another 12 months to 28th February 2022. The aim of this was to facilitate a review from the Data Protection Commissioner and other relevant […]
HerStory, founded in 2016, describes itself as telling “the stories of modern, historic, and mythic women”. On St. Brigid’s Day this year, this movement stuck firm to its commitment to furthering the mythic while denying the historic reality. Using some cruel and grotesque imagery, HerStory “journeyed into the heart of Ireland to help heal the […]
In a comment piece for the Irish Times, the former Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone has suggested that the publication of the Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation should be used “as an opportunity to listen, confront and accept the uncomfortable realities from the not-so-distant past.” Ms Zappone also reminded readers […]
The Report of the Commission into Mother and Baby homes has opened boxes of memories right across the country and beyond. Pandora’s boxes perhaps. People who carry these painful memories are everywhere among us, silently re-living the sadness of their family stories, sometimes feeling their unique and individual experience is being appropriated by a grand narrative […]
At some point in the 20th century history of Ireland, it was decided that the single worst thing you could be was an unmarried mother. It was so bad, in fact, that the words themselves were rarely spoken. Daughters – some of them still of childbearing age today – were warned not to “get into […]