In Northern Ireland, just about all political parties in parliament have apologized for the mistreatment of young people in religious institutions. Previously, an investigation had found that children were widely abused and mistreated in a number of religious institutions between 1922 and 1995.
Jos De Greef
Fri 11 Mar 17:47
It was a subdued and emotional session of Stormont, the parliament of the British region of Northern Ireland. Eighty victims of the abuse were present to hear that they are now finally being believed and that the political parties are apologizing. These came from the major parties: the Protestant DUP and UUP, the Catholic Sinn Fein, the Social Democratic SDLP and the Liberal Alliance.
Representatives of four Catholic religious monastic orders involved, the Anglican Church of Ireland and the British charity Barnardo’s were also present at the hearing and expressed their regret for the suffering caused to the victims.
Today’s hearing follows a 2017 investigative report. That had shown that children and teenagers in the institutions in question suffered systematic and widespread abuse in homes in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1995.
These young people were victims of sexual abuse, among other things, and were also often neglected, beaten or suffered emotionally from very severe discipline or lack of care. The report blamed the religious for this, but also staff members and sometimes even other young people who were allowed to go about their business with impunity. In the institutions “a climate of fear” prevailed. Government inspections ignored the abuse in most cases.
In Noord-Ierland hebben zowat alle politieke partijen in het parlement hun verontschuldigingen aangeboden voor de mishandelingen van jongeren in religieuze instellingen. Eerder had een onderzoek uitgewezen dat kinderen tussen 1922 en 1995 op grote schaal misbruikt en mishandeld werden in een aantal religieuze instellingen.
Jos De Greef
vr 11 mrt 17:47
Het was een ingetogen en emotionele zitting van Stormont, het parlement van de Britse regio Noord-Ierland. Een tachtigtal slachtoffers van het misbruik waren aanwezig om te horen dat ze nu eindelijk geloofd worden en dat de politieke partijen hun verontschuldigingen aanbieden. Die kwamen er van de grote partijen: de protestantse DUP en UUP, de katholieke Sinn Fein, de sociaaldemocratische SDLP en de liberale Alliance.
Ook vertegenwoordigers van vier betrokken katholieke religieuze kloosterorden, de anglicaanse Kerk van Ierland en de Britse liefdadigheidsinstelling Barnardo’s waren op de zitting aanwezig en betuigden hun spijt voor het leed dat de slachtoffers is aangedaan.
De zitting van vandaag is een gevolg van een onderzoeksrapport uit 2017. Dat had aangetoond dat kinderen en tieners in de betrokken instellingen tussen 1922 en 1995 systematisch en op grote schaal mishandeld werden in tehuizen in Noord-Ierland.
Die jongeren waren onder meer slachtoffer van seksueel misbruik en werden ook vaak verwaarloosd, geslagen of leden emotioneel onder erg zware discipline of gebrek aan verzorging. Het rapport wees daarvoor de religieuzen aan, maar ook personeelsleden en soms zelfs andere jongeren die ongestraft hun gang konden gaan. In de instellingen zou ook “een klimaat van angst” geheerst hebben. Inspecties door de overheid negeerden in de meeste gevallen het misbruik.
1 Irish state apologises to mother and baby home victims
2 Ireland: The forgotten Angels of Tuam
19 mrt. 2018
Our reporters returned to Ireland, where the remains of 800 children who died at the Tuam Mother and Baby home in County Galway were found in a mass grave. Our team met with survivors of the home, who told them of their pain and of rebuilding their stolen childhoods.
Imagine a world where you were separated by force from your mother, simply because you were born out of wedlock. A world where you were called a bastard and she a whore. A world where you were thrown into a facility run by nuns, where food was scarce and where you didn’t know what Christmas was. A world where “home” was synonymous with hell.
In the town of Tuam, Western Ireland, that world was a reality for tens of thousands of mothers and their babies, born between the 1920s and the 1960s.
In 2014, Catherine Corless, an amateur historian, revealed the result of her research: nearly 800 babies were denied proper burials and their bodies were located in the chambers of a sewage system, on the property of the former Mother and Baby home.
The investigation is still under way and its findings are due to be revealed in 2019. But many in Tuam blame the state and the Bon Secours Sisters, who ran the home at the time.
FRANCE 24’s Aurore Cloe Dupuis and Julie Dungelhoeff met with survivors of the home, who demand justice for those whom they call the forgotten Angels of Tuam.
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3 Head of Ireland’s Catholic Church apologises to survivors of mother and baby homes – BBC News
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4 Joni Mitchell – The Magdalene Laundries (Live Toronto 1994)
28 mrt. 2013
written by Joni Mitchell | produced by Joni Mitchell & Larry Klein | from the album Turbulent Indigo (1994) | live from Intimate & Interactive (1994) | additional audio mixing by sonicboy19 | lyrics:
I was an unmarried girl
I’d just turned twenty-seven
When they sent me to the sisters
For the way men looked at me
Branded as a jezebel
I knew I was not bound for Heaven
I’d be cast in shame
Into the Magdalene laundries
Most girls come here pregnant
Some by their own fathers
Bridget got that belly
By her parish priest
We’re trying to get things white as snow
All of us woe-begotten-daughters
In the steaming stains
Of the Magdalene laundries
Prostitutes and destitutes
And temptresses like me
Fallen women
Sentenced into dreamless drudgery
Why do they call this heartless place
Our Lady of Charity?
Oh charity!
These bloodless brides of Jesus
If they had just once glimpsed their groom
Then they’d know and they’d drop the stones
Concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
They leech the light out of a room
They’d like to drive us down the drain
At the Magdalene laundries
Peg O’Connell died today
She was a cheeky girl
A flirt
They just stuffed her in a hole!
Surely to God you’d think at least some bells should ring!
One day I’m going to die here too
And they’ll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb
That never blooms come any spring
Not any spring
No, not any spring
Not any spring
© 1994; Crazy Crow Music
Joni Mitchell – The Magdalene Laundries (Live Toronto 1994) – Blog
5 Joni Mitchell : Magdalene Laundries (KCRW 1994)
6 Joni Mitchell – The Magdalene Laundries (with lyrics)
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14 jun. 2018
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The Magdalene Laundries
I was an unmarried girl
I’d just turned twenty-seven
When they sent me to the sisters
For the way men looked at me
Branded as a jezebel
I knew I was not bound for Heaven
I’d be cast in shame
Into the Magdalene laundries
Most girls come here pregnant
Some by their own fathers
Bridget got that belly
By her parish priest
We’re trying to get things white as snow
All of us woe-begotten-daughters
In the steaming stains
Of the Magdalene laundries
Prostitutes and destitutes
And temptresses like me
Fallen women
Sentenced into dreamless drudgery
Why do they call this heartless place
Our Lady of Charity?
Oh charity!
These bloodless brides of Jesus
If they had just once glimpsed their groom
Then they’d know and they’d drop the stones
Concealed behind their rosaries
They wilt the grass they walk upon
They leech the light out of a room
They’d like to drive us down the drain
At the Magdalene laundries
Peg O’Connell died today
She was a cheeky girl
A flirt
They just stuffed her in a hole!
Surely to God you’d think at least some bells should ring!
One day I’m going to die here too
And they’ll plant me in the dirt
Like some lame bulb
That never blooms come any spring
Not any spring
No, not any spring
Not any spring
© 1994; Crazy Crow Music
8 ‘I gave birth to my child on a metal table at 18, alone in a room in a convent’
7 mrt. 2017
It was 1981, and though Wadding said she was not a victim of “cruelty or physical abuse”, she, like the other girls at the home, suffered emotional and psychological abuse that would stay with them for the rest of their lives.
“I shared a room with a girl who was only 13-years-old, she was a child. I was 18, she sobbed her heart out for her mother every night and I mean it was incredibly, incredibly traumatic,” she said.
“The trauma of banishment, you had the trauma of guilt and shame that was imposed by the very fact of being there. You had the enormous trauma and sorrow of loss of your child being placed for adoption and that’s something that’s left a lasting impact on my life.”
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9 The Best Documentary Ever – 16×9 Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
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10 The Forgotten Maggies Official Documentary (52 min) Magdalene Laundries
1 apr. 2016
It was filmed in locations all over Ireland and the UK from 2006-2009 including Carlow, Wexford, Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Limerick, London and Bournemouth.
Editing on the documentary was completed by Ger Boland. Having been originally launched at the 2009 Galway Film Fleadh, the documentary has undergone several changes due to legal reasons.
This documentary is the only Irish made film on the subject matter. It also screened internationally at The Cantor Film Centre in New York in October 2009 and subsequently went on limited Cinema release throughout Ireland.
‘The Forgotten Maggies’ shed new light on the how and why innocent girls ended up in these institutions working against their will, as well as aiming to challenge the Irish Government and question the States role with regard these institutions.
This documentary gave the women political recognition leading the way for the Official state apology in 2013
The Irish Times said of the documentary “The Forgotten Maggies was an opportunity to “rectify” in some small way, the wrong that was visited upon these women over many years” with the Irish Independent saying “It took the persistence of documentary maker Steven O’Riordan and his team to secure justice.”
11 Ireland’s Magdalen laundries and the nation’s architecture of containment
1 mrt. 2018
12 – 800 Baby Mass Grave | Children Of Shame | Real Crime
15 apr. 2021
13 RTÉ Prime Time – Magdalene Laundry Apology (19/2/13)
14 ‘We took their babies and gifted them, sold them, trafficked them and starved them’
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9 mrt. 2017
Taoiseach Enda Kenny used strong and emotive words in the Dáil today when discussing the Tuam mother and baby home revelations.
Today, Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone agreed to carry out a “small scoping exercise” to assess if it is possible to expand the existing terms of reference to include other homes into the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes.
Speaking in response to a question from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin in the Dáil today, Kenny said, “we gave them up because of our perverse, in fact, morbid relationship with what is called respectability”.
The Taoiseach was addressing the Dáil following last week’s revelations that substantial amounts of human remains were discovered on the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway.
Since the discovery, a number of survivors have called for the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes to be expanded.
In consultation with the commission, Zappone is due to announce details of the scoping exercise after the St Patrick’s Day weekend. http://jrnl.ie/3275702
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15 Peter Mulryan demands answers to what happened to his sister in Tuam | The Late Late Show
11 mrt. 2017
16 Tuam and Ireland’s shame: unedited interview with historian Diarmaid Ferriter
18 Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries: Maeve O’Rourke at TEDxHolborn
19 The Good Shepherd Magdalen Laundry
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A shrine in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland on June 9, 2014, erected in memory of up to 800 children who were allegedly buried at the site of the former home for unmarried mothers run by nuns. (PAUL FAITH/AFP/Getty Images)
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11 mrt. 2017
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PT1: ESCAPE FROM THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRY, DIANE CROGHAN SHARES HER INCREDIBLE STORY
7 sep. 2020
In this powerful two part series, which begins tonight, 7th September 2020, the lovable Diane Croghan, who is almost 80 years old, tells her powerful story of her escape from the Wexford Magdalene Laundry.
Born in the Enniscorthy county home, where she remained until she was three year’s old, Diane was later fostered out before she was incarcerated into the Wexford Magdalene Laundry at just 8 years old – she is believed to be the youngest ever Magdalene.
Don’t miss Part One of Diane’s story this Monday 7th September at 7pm.
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PT2: ESCAPE FROM THE MAGDALENE LAUNDRY, DIANE CROGHAN SHARES HER INCREDIBLE STORY
14 sep. 2020
In this powerful two part series, which began on 7th September 2020, the lovable Diane Croghan, who is almost 80 years old, tells her powerful story of her escape from the Wexford Magdalene Laundry.
Born in the Enniscorthy county home, where she remained until she was three year’s old, Diane was later fostered out before she was incarcerated into the Wexford Magdalene Laundry at just 8 years old – she is believed to be the youngest ever Magdalene.
Don’t miss Part Two of Diane’s story tonight Monday 14th September at 7pm.
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A Hardshoes Production 2020
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