The treatment of unmarried mothers between the 1920s and 1960s was
“less severe” in Ireland than in other countries, partly due to the
strength of Catholic teaching, a priest has claimed.
In an article in The Furrow, a Catholic journal, Father Pádraig McCarthy, a retired parish priest from Sandyford, says other European countries had far more “draconian ways” of dealing with women who were sent to institutions for being supposedly “feeble-minded” or “promiscuous”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ireland-less-severe-on-unmarried-mothers-says-priest-l3rmc0xz3
In an article in The Furrow, a Catholic journal, Father Pádraig McCarthy, a retired parish priest from Sandyford, says other European countries had far more “draconian ways” of dealing with women who were sent to institutions for being supposedly “feeble-minded” or “promiscuous”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ireland-less-severe-on-unmarried-mothers-says-priest-l3rmc0xz3