The Orphans That Never Were • Documentary on One Podcast. Absolutely heartbreaking and Infuriating podcast about a fire in a Nun run orphanage in Cavan in 1943.
The Orphans That Never Were • Documentary on One Podcast. Absolutely heartbreaking and Infuriating podcast about a fire in a Nun run orphanage in Cavan in 1943.
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“Highlights” include
– taking 2 girls off a widower because he couldn’t possibly look after girls and they weren’t allowed to be taken in by a friend because she was Church of Ireland.
-A priest saying 2 of the girls who died were no lost because they briefly went to a Church Of Ireland school.
-Nuns locking children into their rooms each night but lost the key the night of a fire.
-Nuns not letting the firefighters break down a door to save the children from the fire to safe the child’s modesty.
There’s an episode of Scannal on this on the RTE player too. Worth a look.