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Solidarity with #NotMyShame
Watch out for those who have no voice #abuse
A child who was once bubbly & carefree but has become quiet & withdrawn, listen to their unspoken words, often 1 word will highlight that they need you to save them.

This letter fills me with such anger!
‘Passed fit for adoption’ 😡, akin to an animal.
The next day at the age of 7weeks & 3days old I was handed over to my adoptive parents.
#Bessboro
#motherandbabyhome
#redress

1/5 I don’t know how many times I’ve read Commission Reports #MotherAndBabyHomes but often I see something I can challenge which does not match with testimony of victim survivor - in this case burial of babies

Listening to the Dail debate on the Bill to provide supports for survivors of Industrial schools . Thomas Pringle T.D. is right when he says survivors are not listen to.

At a very minimum this Bill should revoke the gagging order in the original 2002 Act for the redress scheme .

The Government has ignored all but four of 29 recommendations made by survivors for legislation to provide supports for survivors of institutional abuse.
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4138…

#Ireland #MotherandBabyHomes #IndustrialSchools #MagdalenLaundries #Adoption #IllegalAdoption #Discrimination #TransitionalJustice #MagdaleneLivesMatter

Thnx 2all who've liked/RT'd; appreciated!

Please #X 'er's, canUgenerate as many #Irish RT's as possible; this is important..

As this place seems to be throttling reach on 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥’s post about Bessborough — I’m sharing this as an image, so if you’re in the area around then, please considering joining us to commemorate the women & children of Bessborough.

This will be our 10th Anniversary gathering together to remember the Women/girls & the children that died in #Bessboro or later in hospital. The Government have not acted on our constant requests to investigate the grounds for burials.The loss is immeasurable. Support if you can.

And Roderic O’Gorman TD thinks anyone who spent less than 6months in a #motherandbabyhomes isn't affected... #howirelandworks #justicedenied #excluded #adoption #Redress #deny #delay #divide #statepolicy #classwar

I’ve been terrible at promoting my artwork over the past few months & really have made no effort at all. I haven’t even focused on my birthday deal. So if you fancy some pen & ink drawings or know someone who might, here they are. I’m grateful for any RT!

Monsignor Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town visited Ireland in 1946. Archivist Tom Lynch said he talked about the Irish institutions as being “like concentration camps for children.”

He noted such #IndustrialSchools #Orphanages scarred young people for life. 💔

“The greater numbers of the babies were ‘miserable scraps of humanity, wizened, some emaciated and almost all had rash and sores all over their bodies, faces, hands and heads’. Their cots ‘were clean, and bed-clothing clean and good.'
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- Alice Litster, Inspector #Bessboro 1943

This year will be our 10th anniversary commemorating the women & children that died in #Bessboro or shortly after being transferred to hospital. The burial place of the majority is unknown. Please sign before our next gathering in June. Your support is appreciated 🙏

James Sugrue speaks regularly for the “boarded out” children many of whom were enslaved. Our member Michael spoke to Irish Tomes, born in 1948 in Tuam home, boarded out in similar situation to your dad. Those kids had no one to speak for them then 💔

irishtimes.com/news/social-af…

Worn in 1965 from Dublin/Shannon /NY Pan Am
#MotherandBabyHomes
Ireland's still shameful past
the words on this is very a poignant reminder that the government dont give a shit .

Dr Noel Browne quoted in Irish Press on Valentines Day 14th February
The Year: 1975

Forty-nine years later the Government of the day Simon Harris TD Roderic O’Gorman TD Micheál Martin deny 24,000 living survivors #Redress #Ireland #MotherAndBabyHomes
#Shame lays at their feet

1/8 The year 1924 …”It is now Sunday morning and about 12 of us are lined up to be beaten in the washroom at the end of St. Michael’s dormitory. We are ordered to take off our pants. Walsh (one of the brothers) now goes to his room and returns with a stick. It’s a new stick,

Fianna Fáil councillor and Mayor of Clonmel, he carried the pain of his abuse suffered at the hands of clerics attached to the Rosminian Order at St Joseph’s #IndustrialSchool in Clonmel in the 1940’s.

His testimony is powerful- please listen ⬇️

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQGcz…

1/3. There are survivors who have never escaped the “system”, never known freedom in their entire life right up to their late seventies. Four years ago the account of Mary Gaffney then aged 74 was highlighted in the Irish Times Although the #MagdalenLaundry had closed, Mary was

“We want this child for companionship “ was on the application for children from County home. James Sugrue aged 8 and his brother aged 7 were enslaved in a “boarded out” setting in a home where he suffered nightly sexual abuse. On RTE radio listen live

rte.ie/radio/radio1/