Lies You Were Taught as a Child

That is just what the catholic church nuns told us... and you know what... there have been ghost fires... in all of the catholic church homes and orphanages worldwide... Not a thing but five lines of who took me there... and it was not my mother as the nuns use to tell us as children... it was St. Vincent De' Paul... who worked for the catholic church... 😿🙀
Yes and again in 2003 by the Good Shepherd order nuns... what happened was that the man who was standing in for the government... came in with over 15 big boxes for papers... and here we all were standing around as little children... waiting for our names to be called out... I was so excited to see so many boxes... thinking that we all would have a box each... and that the sisters shared their box... as I heard the named called out... when another box was pulled away from the pile of boxes... my eyes and ears stayed on that box... but no not for me again... two boxes left and so many ladies still waiting for their named to be called out... NO our names were never uttered... not even a whispered of a Ann did I hear... Five girls got five boxes each... we were sure that this guy had made a mistake... but no he had not... these five girls had being from one home to another and each place that they went to where in their boxes...they were from the state homes.

24years of my childhood is lost... only the abuse... pain and torment are in-bedded in me... us men and women of the catholic church orphanages have nothing about our Childhood...  Ann

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The following is for adults who have suffered trauma as a child particularly abuse by the responsible adults in their lives. Abuse includes physical, emotional and sexual. However, what this audio addresses is the emotional abuse which is present whenever physical and sexual abuse occurs as well as occurring by itself. Although the act of abuse is horrible, the worst part often is the long-term consequences suffered by those who have been abused. Those long-term consequences occur because of what you were taught to believe about yourself. The abuse taught you lies about yourself and because of those lies you continue to suffer in adulthood. 

https://www.excelatlife.com/downloads/cognitive_self-talk/lies.htm

Sexually Abused 400 Children Found Buried Under Catholic Church

The children were all residents of an orphanage run by Catholic nuns and were found buried in an unmarked mass grave in a section of St Mary’s Cemetery.
The orphanage looked after 11,600 children between 1864 and 1981. In 2003, former residents Frank Docherty and Jim Kane discovered a burial plot containing the bodies of a number of children who they say were sexually abused before being killed.

http://www.theaware.net/sexually-abused-400-children-found-buried-under-catholic-church/ 

15 Stories About Orphanages From Around The World

 And Christchurch New Zealand... as this photo is from and it is one of my photos... this order of nuns were the cruelest witches that ever lived... they enslaved innocent children... who they ripped from their mother's arms... as tiny little babies... I was one of those stolen babies... Ann

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The Nazareth House orphanages were run by the Sisters of Nazareth beginning in the middle of the 19th century. The first institution began in London, but they expanded to include houses in Britain, Australia, South Africa, the United States and Ireland. The sisters ran a tight ship, enforcing their own brand of discipline which often crossed the line into the worst kind of abuse. Over 500 former residents from different countries have come forward to recount their tales of horror and trauma.

http://www.babygaga.com/15-stories-about-orphanages-from-around-the-world/2/?view=lista 

Ireland Wanted to Forget. But the Dead Don’t Always Stay Buried.

A slight girl all of 6, she leaves the modest family farm, where the father minds the livestock and the mother keeps a painful secret, and walks out to the main road. Off she goes to primary school, off to the Sisters of Mercy.
Her auburn hair in ringlets, this child named Catherine is bound for Tuam, the ancient County Galway town whose name derives from a Latin term for “burial mound.” It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archdiocese, a proud distinction announced by the skyscraping cathedral that for generations has loomed over factory and field.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html 

Noelle Brown | The Late Late Show

Noelle Brown was born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in the 1960s and adopted when she was eight weeks old. She talks to Ryan about her quest to find out more about her birth-mother.

https://www.rte.ie/player/nz/show/the-late-late-show-extras-30003017/10795354/ 

To Find the Story of the Lost Children of Tuam, I Needed a Guide

What is the compact between the living and the dead? Do we owe the dead a small plot of earth? A gravestone or an urn? A whispered prayer, a spray of flowers, or some other means by which we signal to the great silence that we remember?

These are among the many questions raised by a continuing scandal in Ireland that is the focus of a New York Times special report called “The Lost Children of Tuam.” Though well-known in that country, the disturbing case, involving the historic mistreatment of unwed Irish mothers and their children, is less familiar beyond Irish shores.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/28/insider/a-guide-to-find-the-story-of-the-lost-children-of-tuam.html?emc=edit_tnt_20171028&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y 

Collateral damage: the family upheaval that results from abuse

A case of sex abuse has repercussions beyond the obvious as the families of ­perpetrators are also drawn into the trauma.  Betrayal. It's the first word that Dr Marie Keenan thinks of when she considers the overriding emotion experienced when a family member is revealed to be a sex offender.

"That sense of betrayal is enormous," she says. "This is someone they loved, whom they thought they knew intimately, and now they are having to confront the most horrific news."

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/collateral-damage-the-family-upheaval-that-results-from-abuse-36265245.html

Elizabeth and Margaret 1911 Ireland

This is what happened to catholic women and girls... who found they were with child... when you read this story... Please take in mind also... about what us babies went through because of our birth... we were the devil's daughters and sons... it was a life worst that the concentrations camps during the wars... for us innocent children... in the catholic church orphanages worldwide... Ann

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When the 1911 Census was being collated, Elizabeth (Eliza) Nolan was just 6 years old. The daughter of a farmer, she had eight siblings. The closest in age to her, with just 3 years separating them, was my paternal Grandfather, Patrick. The Nolans grew up in a rural area called Gurteen (also known as Gorteen), just outside the village of Killeigh near Tullamore, Co.Offaly in Ireland.
Discovering her pregnancy. When Elizabeth was just 21 years old, she discovered she was pregnant. She was in a relationship with a local man at the time but they weren’t married. Facing rejection and shame. In 1926 Ireland, falling pregnant out of wedlock was a massive scandal. As people of that time saw it, news of Elizabeth’s pregnancy brought great shame on the Nolan family. She was sent to Dublin to have her baby and she never saw her parents again.

https://paulanolanphotography.ie/blog/2015/11/20/elizabeth-and-margaret/

Bodies of 'hundreds' of children buried in mass grave

Another time... another country... Stolen babies and sold to the highest bidders... by nuns and priest and the government...   we MUST be the VOICE of the lost innocent babies and children... Ann

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The bodies of hundreds of children are believed to be buried in a mass grave in Lanarkshire, southern Scotland, according to an investigation by BBC News.

The children were all residents of a care home run by Catholic nuns. At least 400 children are thought to be buried in a section of St Mary's Cemetery in Lanark.

Spanish 'stolen' baby case goes to European court

Another time... another country... Stolen babies and sold to the highest bidders... by nuns and priest and the government...  Ann

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A woman who believes her baby was abducted at birth by staff at a Spanish hospital is to have her case heard by the European Court of Human Rights.

Ruth Appleby, from North Yorkshire, was told her daughter had died hours after being born apparently healthy in 1992. She later learned that thousands of Spanish babies were taken and given up for adoption.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40494049# 

I'm anxious that every bit of evidence gets out there, just in case it's a carbon copy of Tuam'

“THE DEATH RATES in all those places were very, very high. I would doubt that St Anne’s was an exception.”
Catherine Corless, the historian whose research led to the discovery of the human remains in sewage chambers at the Tuam site, is calling for a full investigation into a former Sisters of Mercy orphanage as a number of survivors have disclosed recollections of baby deaths on the land to her.

http://www.thejournal.ie/lenaboy-castle-galway-investigation-3654327-Oct2017/?utm_source=shortlink 

Ireland's 'house of tears': Why Tuam's survivors want justice for lost and abused children

When you look into the nuns who abused and raped innocent children... and stole babies in Ireland... you must also know that this abuse from nuns... as with the priest abused children worldwide... the same goes for the Nuns abusing children... and stealing babies around the world as well... I am one of the babies the cathgolic church ripped from my mother's arms... when I was 2 and a half months old in Wellington New Zealand... then took me down to the Christchurch to their orphanage... from the on I was called an orphan... there were no true orphans in their orphanages in New Zealand... they called us orphans because they got more money from the government for each child... they also got money from our mothers and some from the fathers... they is was the nuns are so rich today... they made their money from the blood of the innocent children... who were their nuns slaves... Ann

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A harrowing discovery in Ireland casts light on the Catholic Church's history of abusing unwed mothers and their babies – and emboldened survivors to demand accountability.
In a small meeting room on the second floor of the Corralea Court Hotel, Patrick McDonagh tells his story in a rushed confession. "It was the way everything was covered up; the way they got rid of me. I was born there. I was there until 6 1/2," says the 63-year-old. He leans forward as he speaks in a hushed voice. On either side of him, others listen, their faces expressionless. They, too, will have their turn to reveal what few of them have spoken about before.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/tuam-ireland-house-of-tears/article36431106/ 

Bishop wants Little Nellie exhumed

The Bishop of Cork and Ross has called for the exhumation of the remains of Little Nellie — the “unofficial patron saint” of Cork — from a cemetery on lands controlled by receivers to allow people to pray at her grave.
John Buckley also suggested that in the interim, approaches be made to the bank which appointed the receivers to manage the now derelict Good Shepherd Convent on Sunday’s Well with a view to facilitating public access to her grave.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bishop-wants-little-nellie-exhumed-348764.html 

Magdalene site findings require investigation

Over the last few months, a team of archaeologists has been examining the former Good Shepherd convent site, under licences from the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in conjunction with the National Museum.
The examination is part of a request for further information in relation to a planning application for the proposed redevelopment of the site.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/magdalene-site-findings-require-investigation-460903.html 

Call to open Church records to abuse survivors

The Government must push the Catholic Church and religious orders to open their records to abuse survivors and academics.  Catriona Crowe, former head of special projects at the National Archives of Ireland, said that it “should not be a matter of grace and favour” that survivors are granted full access to records, but a matter of right.
She said Ireland had seen unprecedented disclosures relating to treatment of vulnerable women and children across a unique archipelago of institutions — mother and baby homes, Magdalene laundries, industrial schools, and reformatories. She said the only way to achieve a complete picture of what happened is to have full access to their archives.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/call-to-open-church-records-to-abuse-survivors-461139.html 

Tuam historian Catherine Corless to receive human rights award

The Bar of Ireland has announced that Tuam amateur historian Catherine Corless will receive its Human Rights Award for 2017. The association of barristers says the award is "in recognition of her tireless work in relation to the Tuam Mother and Baby Home".
In 2014, Catherine published research revealing that hundreds of babies & toddlers had been buried in unmarked graves at the Tuam Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home.  The home operated between 1925 and 1961 in the Co Galway town.

http://www.newstalk.com/Tuam-historian-Catherine-Corless-to-receive-human-rights-award

They Promised Heaven But Led Me To Hell

My name is Ann Thompson. I am an author and a poet, I have written about my experience in two Catholic Church Orphanages. I am hoping to raise funds to publish a second book about my experience in the Orphanages. I want to raise awareness and help New Zealanders who have suffered a similar experience.
This book is written through the eyes of a child, telling her story, who’s memories are as vivid today, as though they were yesterday. I was not educated, but the child in me does not go a day without the pain, shame and torment of the abuse, which she was put through, by the very people who should have looked after her. I thought all my life that I was a bad child and that the punishment was done to me for being bad and a bold girl. A child who could not do anything unless she was punished beforehand.
I have written this book because I believe those of us who have been abused by the nuns and priests need to tell our stories so the abuse of children will never happen again.
This crime and our shame will never go away until we stand together as one and say to the Catholic Church. 'No more abuse; No more lies; Tell the world the truth.' Ann Free Spirit = Ann Thompson


https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/annfreespirit

Unspeakable cruelty and vicious abuse'

A REPORT INTO institutional abuse at children’s homes in Northern Ireland has found that there was ‘widespread abuse’ at such facilities between 1922 and 1995.
The Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry had looked into allegations of abuse at 22 such children’s homes across Northern Ireland. The largest number of complaints stemmed from four different Catholic-run institutions.

http://www.thejournal.ie/northern-ireland-childrens-homes-abuse-3196344-Jan2017/ 

Suffer the Little Children: Church Cruelty in Ireland

Last year, during the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising that led to Irish independence, the writer Colm Toibin pointed to the fatal mistake the British made when putting down the rebellion. It was not just the swift execution of the movement’s leaders, which historians often point to as a defining moment, but the burial of their bodies in quicklime without coffins.

“Anyone Irish will understand that whatever you do, don’t do that,” he said, adding that it “mattered in Ireland in a way that it might not have mattered in some other country.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/opinion/suffer-the-little-children-church-cruelty-in-ireland.html 

Nuns performed acts of sadism on children, Australian inquiry finds

Sadistic nuns at a notorious Australian orphanage in Queensland dished out abuse in a toxic environment that festered due in part to inadequate government scrutiny, supervision and training, a royal commission has found.
The child sex abuse royal commission last year examined cruel treatment of 13 former residents of St Joseph's Orphanage, which was operated by the Sisters of Mercy between 1940 and 1975. The men and women – now aged from their 50s to 80s – recalled abuse at Neerkol, ranging from public floggings and being walked on in high heels to being made to drape urine-soaked sheets over their heads.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/79205204/nuns-performed-acts-of-sadism-on-children-australian-inquiry-finds 

Mothers who lose children to care ‘often care leavers themselves’

A significant percentage of mothers who repeatedly lose children to the care system for adoption are care leavers themselves, new research suggests.
In a study which has now been published under the title Vulnerable Mother and Recurrent Care Proceedings, a team of researchers from Lancaster University examined the life histories of 354 young mothers living in 52 legal authority regions. Between them the mothers had appeared in a 851 care cases. This information was boosted with general population data and personal interviews with 72 women.

http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2017/10/07/mothers-lose-children-care-leavers/ 

Erasing History on the Pretense of Preserving Privacy: Why the Supreme Court of Canada is Allowing the Destruction of Records of Residential School Abuse

One of the ways to persecute is to rob people of their history. This was done by male historians seeking to undervalue the contributions of women. It was done by white historians seeking to confirm racist ideologies.
Now a group of all white judges has entrenched the power of a body created by a white majority government to rob the victims of residential schools of their history. On October 6, 2017 the Supreme Court of Canada made it legal for the authorities in charge of compensating the victims of the residential school system to destroy the records of the abuse after a given delay.

http://www.forgetthebox.net/erasing-history-pretense-preserving-privacy-supreme-court-canada-allowing-destruction-records-residential-school-abuse-201710121/ 

National body to investigate abuse claims at Aberdeen’s Nazareth House

Oh Please... Please do something about these Nazareth House nuns. they were so evil... cruel women... deliberately causing us pain and suffering without mercy... we had these so and so order of nuns in New Zealand as well... they were the devil himself...
We never saw a Bible at the two catholic orphanages in Christchurch New Zealand... and I was there up to 25years old... just being the nuns slaves like most of us girls... working without FREEDOM and never being paid... they were paid by the government for our keep and work... but we never saw a penny... the nuns were paid blood money... as they whipped us until we bleed... and until we could not get up... while working on our hands and knees... and if we dare to look up at the nuns... while she passed us... out would come her whip behind her back... then she would walk away while we were out cold... because we knew what she was going to do to us... and we just had to look to see which way we could move to... to get away from that whip... it was just endless beatings both day and night... we could not get away from it... NO ONE helped us... and they all knew... they could hear us screaming for help... NO ONE came...   Ann

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A former Aberdeen children’s home run by nuns is to be investigated as part of a national abuse probe next year.  The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has announced it will look into claims of abuse at establishments run by the Sisters of Nazareth in the spring.
Nazareth House in the city’s Claremont Street was once home to more than 300 children and has faced allegations of historical abuse for more than 20 years.

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/national-body-to-investigate-abuse-claims-at-nazareth-house/?utm_source=facebook

Scottish nuns promise memorial to 400 children in mass grave.

Nuns who ran the orphanage where up to 400 children were secretly buried in a mass grave have finally promised a memorial to mark their lives. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul pledged to build a memorial naming all the lost children of Smyllum.

At least 402 babies, toddlers and older children died while being looked after by the nuns at Smyllum Park in Lanarkshire and were believed to be buried at a nearby cemetery. That was nearly three times the number of children the religious order had claimed were buried in an unmarked mass grave.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-nuns-promise-memorial-to-400-children-in-mass-grave-1-4568836 

Ten-year-old children should not be locked up, leading criminologist says

The minimum age of criminal responsibility for children should be lifted from 10 to 14, given mounting evidence of the lifelong harm the justice system does to children, and the huge risk of children becoming "entrenched" in the jail system if locked up young, one of Australia's leading criminologists says. Children as young as 10 can currently be prosecuted for crimes in all jurisdictions in Australia.

 https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/tenyearold-children-should-not-be-locked-up-leading-criminologist-says-20170922-gymvt4.html

A Catholic Nun is arrested for ‘helping five priests rape deaf children’

A Roman Catholic nun stands accused of helping five priests sexually abuse deaf children.
Kosaka Kumiko, 42, allegedly helped the priests cover up anal and vaginal rapes, fondling and oral sex at the institution for deaf students in Argentina.
The abuse allegedly took place in the bathrooms, dorms, garden and a basement at the school in Lujan de Cuyo, a city about 620 miles northwest of Buenos Aires.

http://www.worldwide876media.com/nun-arrested-priests-rape-children/ 

Smyllum orphans will be nameless no more.

Children who have lain in unmarked graves in Lanark’s St Mary’s Cemetery for up to 150 years are soon to be nameless no more. Although the order of nuns that ran Lanark’s Smyllum Orphanage from the 1860s to the 1980s, the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul, bowed to pressure several years ago to erect a memorial stone to children who died in their care in the vicinity of their unmarked final resting places, that stone carried no individual names.

http://www.carlukegazette.co.uk/news/smyllum-orphans-will-be-nameless-no-more-1-4580343 

Abuse at Goulburn's orphanages must be acknowledged | Editorial

Those who haven’t walked in the shoes of children abused in institutional care struggle to understand the enduring hurt and pain.  Many people urge these victims to get on with life, put their experience behind them and do the best they can. But anyone with understanding of the lingering effects knows this is only possible to a certain extent.
Feelings of neglected childhoods were evident amid the camaraderie and happiness at the recent reunion of Gill Memorial Boys Home residents. These men love catching up each year but it’s always with a tinge of sadness. Instances of proven and alleged sexual abuse by Salvation Army officers have been aired at a Senate inquiry and more recently, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

http://www.goulburnpost.com.au/story/4928833/time-to-acknowledge-our-orphanage-truth/

Magdalene Laundries: The First Prisons for Women in the United States*

The Indiana Women’s Prison, originally known as the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, is considered the first separate prison for women in the United States. We believe that distinction belongs instead to Catholic institutions commonly referred to as “Magdalene Laundries” that were established throughout the nation beginning in the 1840s and that served as private prisons for women whose sexuality offended mainstream society.
We first discovered the existence of a Magdalene Laundry in Indianapolis as part of research on the early history of our prison. In digitizing records for the original inmates, we found that none were in for sex-related offenses. We discovered a Catholic prison that had opened in Indianapolis five months
before the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls. We have since found 15 Catholic women’s prisons that existed before the one in Indianapolis opened, beginning with Louisville, Kentucky, in 1843, and another 23 before 1900.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0WaPggKV2mkWXZXY0JEUS1HQWc/view

Former burial site of Bon Secours nuns won't be touched in hospital transformation, says HSE

PLANS to transform the old Grove hospital once owned by the Bon Secours nuns in Tuam won't include any work at a former nuns' burial site, according to the HSE.
While excavation works will be carried out as part of the redevelopment of the old Grove hospital which is being turned into a Community Mental Health facility, the plot to the rear of the site, where it's thought babies were also buried at the foot of nuns' graves, won't be touched.

http://www.tuamherald.ie/news/roundup/articles/2017/09/06/4145433-former-burial-site-of-bon-secours-nuns-wont-be-touched-in-hospital-transformation-says-hse/ 

Fury over religious orders that owe state more than €100million in abuse compensation receiving millions in HSE grants

FOUR religious orders forming part of a group that owes the State more than €100million in abuse compo got almost €300m in HSE grants last year. Some 18 orders that ran facilities where children were abused have paid only €95.9m of their promised €226m as a result of the long-running Ryan Inquiry.

Despite this, the Brothers of Charity, Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Charity and Sisters of Mercy have got almost €300m for running medical facilities. The Irish Sun now breaks down the amount each organisation has paid from the 2015 bill, with the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Mercy footing more than half of the costs paid so far.

https://www.thesun.ie/news/1484080/fury-over-religious-orders-that-owe-state-more-than-e100million-in-abuse-compensation-receiving-millions-in-hse-grants/

Another Tuam site to be scanned for infant remains

A new site in Tuam, Co Galway is to be scanned to see whether it contains an unmarked children's grave. The Irish Daily Mail reports that before any building work can take place on the grounds of Grove Hospital, an excavation is to be carried out.
There are fears the site - which was formerly run by the Bon Secours nuns - may contain the remains of babies who died at birth. The scan will be similar to that conducted at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home which revealed significant quantities of infant remains in a septic tank.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/another-tuam-site-to-be-scanned-for-infant-remains-804488.html 

Magdalene Laundry survivors including those in Galway slam government over promises

Galway Bay fm newsroom – Magdalene laundries survivors, including those who were based at the city laundry, say the government has broken its promise to create a memorial and redress scheme.
It’s been four years since the then Taoiseach Enda Kenny made an emotional apology to the women affected. The former Magdalene laundry at Forster Street in the city was operational from 1922 to 1984.

http://connachttribune.ie/magdalene-laundry-survivors-including-those-in-galway-slam-government-over-promises/ 

Politicians back our campaign for memorial to orphans as we reveal Sisters’ plan to sell up

Their plans to sell the acres around Smyllum Park for millions can be disclosed amid escalating demands for a memorial remembering the names and lives of the lost youngsters.
Our campaign to remember the children won all-party support after we revealed how at least 402 babies, toddlers and teenagers died while being looked after by the nuns – who belonged to an order called the Daughters of Charity, worth nearly £60m – in Lanark

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/smyllum-nuns-in-6-million-land-sale-politicians-back-our-campaign-for-memorial-to-orphans-as-we-reveal-sisters-plan-to-sell-up/ 

Catholic mass grave sites of 350,800 missing children found in Ireland, Spain, Canada

The atrocity of close to 800 emaciated childrens' bodies buried in a Irish Nuns' septic tank represented the 34th child mass grave site linked this week to the Catholic Church. Pope Francis was being prosecuted by the International Common Law Court of Justice (ICLCJ) in Brussels for allegedly trafficking 300,000 children of political prisoners through Vatican Catholic Charities during Argentine's Dirty War. According to witness testimony last week some of those orphans ended up in a child mass grave site in Spain. Last year's ICLCJ prosecution concerned 50,000 missing native Canadian children. There have been 32 child mass grave sites uncovered so far in Canada, most of them on Catholic-run native residential school grounds.

https://forum.grasscity.com/threads/catholic-mass-grave-sites-of-350-800-missing-children-found-in-ireland-spain-canada.1337498/

Lost children of Smyllum will be remembered at last but why has it taken so long?

THERE are many things we do not yet know about the Poor Sisters of Charity.
We still do not know, for example, how many babies, children and adults they buried in the mass, unmarked grave at St Mary’s cemetery in Lanark, a mile or so from the Smyllum Park orphanage. In truth, we may never know.
However, we do know more today than we did a few weeks ago.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/lost-children-of-smyllum-will-be-remembered-at-last-but-why-has-it-taken-so-long/ 

Thousands Rally in Dublin Against Ireland’s Abortion Ban

Thousands of people marched in Dublin on Saturday to demand an end to the country’s constitutional ban on abortion, one of the strictest such laws in the Western world.

The March for Choice is an annual protest against the Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which enshrines a ban on abortions, but this year it was held just days after the government announced it would hold a referendum next year that could potentially change the law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/world/europe/irish-abortion-ban-rally.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170930&nlid=63876270&tntemail0=y 

Ireland's 'house of tears': Why Tuam's survivors want justice for lost and abused children

The St. Mary’s home for babies in Tuam, Ireland, was one of several facilities to deal with the perceived shame of ‘illegitimate’ children set up by the Irish government and run by Catholic religious orders. At this site in Tuam, on the former St. Mary’s grounds, excavations uncovered a mass grave where it is thought that 800 babies are buried.
In a small meeting room on the second floor of the Corralea Court Hotel, Patrick McDonagh tells his story in a rushed confession. "It was the way everything was covered up; the way they got rid of me. I was born there. I was there until 6 1/2," says the 63-year-old. He leans forward as he speaks in a hushed voice. On either side of him, others listen, their faces expressionless. They, too, will have their turn to reveal what few of them have spoken about before.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/tuam-ireland-house-of-tears/article36431106/