Children photographed in 1924 by the Connacht Tribune in Glenamaddy before the ‘Home’ moved to Tuam
"Cherish all the children equally" is a defining Irish shibboleth, enshrined in the Proclamation of Independence. It is one of our highest aspirations and, like most of the things we Irish hold dearest, it is build on a solid foundation of utter hypocrisy.
Cherish all the children? By all available evidence, we Irish don't even like children.
In the past week, a horror story has unfolded.
Eight hundred children are buried in an unmarked mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway, in a disused septic tank on the former grounds of an institution known locally as "The Home". The Bon Secours nuns operated "The Home" between 1926 and 1961 and over the years housed thousands of unmarried mothers and their "illegitimate" children.
The tireless work of historian Catherine Corless has revealed that 796 children, the oldest nine years, the youngest two days old, are in that tank. Causes of death include "malnutrition, measles, convulsions, tuberculosis, gastroenteritis and pneumonia". The tank is described as "filled to the brim with tiny bones and skulls".
Comment: Our western collectives outward declarations of love and relations to our children may have changed over the last 80 years, but really how much do we protect our children and our communities children? Since then communities have been divided and phased out, and we deposit our children in schools which suck them dry from imagination and teaches them
to be emotionally and intellectually dependent on a parasite system. To boot they are fed degenerate diets, mind crumbling meds and stupefying entertainment. And that's not even mentioning the large share of children being physically molested at home or through
pedophile networks. Ironically, Father Flanagan's
'Boy's Town' was later to become part of such a pedophile network, covered up by the same god-awful church.
No, it still doesn't seem like we learned to care.
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