Could someone please explain? I’m English so I’m not aware of the topic.
I can only imagine …
You can’t help but shed a tear for the children and mothers
Sad and sick
I put every name and ‘cause of death’ on my Daily Facebook page for 796 days.
It’s vile the reported causes of death, malnutrition, idiocy, and various illnesses going around at the time.
They didn’t care what happened these children, it can be seen from the reports. Sometimes batches would die within a day or two of each other.
It’s just another reason to be wary of religion, which I feel, are just cults that have gained respectability
It’s a wonder the religious orders weren’t turfed out of the country after this.
I’ve seen many people try to justify this by saying people were starving and they had ‘tough choices to make’. But it’s clear the Bon Secours Sisters were state funded.
With that in mind, it’s logical to conclude at least a significant amount of starving in these cases was deliberate. Even if it was not, the harrowing lack of respect for the infants and their mothers is obvious, given how important funerals are to us and Catholicism in general. This took place 100 years after the Famine, and is completely unacceptable in all regards.
The most shameful episode in our entire history.
There is no way all those babies died of illness or malnutrition, as I’ve seen it claimed – they must have been deliberately murdered. Absolutely unbelievably horrific and shocking.
You should listen to the 796 album by Meryl Streek, really powerful and speaks about these atrocities
That poem made me cry ,how those Mothers must have felt throughout their lives ..so sad
Doesn’t seem fair that the church just gets away with all of this. There was a bigger backlash against the government than the church. I don’t get why the church just get to carry on without any punishment
It makes me so so gut wrenchingly sad that their little remains are still there. Any updates about the excavation?
My heart breaks for those women who endured this…and for what? The religious shame that created the need for these homes to even exist in the first place, I don’t even have words to describe how angry it makes me. The poor fathers too. I’m sure there were many fathers who would have loved those babies if they had been given the chance, and who probably broke their hearts when their loved partners were taken from them.
Were there ever any reparations paid to the survivors?
What is truly terrifying is that, nuns or not, these were people doing this. A large number of women who thought this was ok. Pure evil. It can’t have been isolated to just here. Sending women to these places was deemed normal by a lot of people at this time.
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A horrendous blight on our past. RIP to all the innocents.
I remember driving past once and my stomach just dropped. I couldn’t imagine what it’s like being in there, hope you’re keeping well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home?wprov=sfla1
Could someone please explain? I’m English so I’m not aware of the topic.
I can only imagine …
You can’t help but shed a tear for the children and mothers
Sad and sick
I put every name and ‘cause of death’ on my Daily Facebook page for 796 days.
It’s vile the reported causes of death, malnutrition, idiocy, and various illnesses going around at the time.
They didn’t care what happened these children, it can be seen from the reports. Sometimes batches would die within a day or two of each other.
It’s just another reason to be wary of religion, which I feel, are just cults that have gained respectability
It’s a wonder the religious orders weren’t turfed out of the country after this.
I’ve seen many people try to justify this by saying people were starving and they had ‘tough choices to make’. But it’s clear the Bon Secours Sisters were state funded.
With that in mind, it’s logical to conclude at least a significant amount of starving in these cases was deliberate. Even if it was not, the harrowing lack of respect for the infants and their mothers is obvious, given how important funerals are to us and Catholicism in general. This took place 100 years after the Famine, and is completely unacceptable in all regards.
The most shameful episode in our entire history.
There is no way all those babies died of illness or malnutrition, as I’ve seen it claimed – they must have been deliberately murdered. Absolutely unbelievably horrific and shocking.
You should listen to the 796 album by Meryl Streek, really powerful and speaks about these atrocities
That poem made me cry ,how those Mothers must have felt throughout their lives ..so sad
Doesn’t seem fair that the church just gets away with all of this. There was a bigger backlash against the government than the church. I don’t get why the church just get to carry on without any punishment
It makes me so so gut wrenchingly sad that their little remains are still there. Any updates about the excavation?
My heart breaks for those women who endured this…and for what? The religious shame that created the need for these homes to even exist in the first place, I don’t even have words to describe how angry it makes me. The poor fathers too. I’m sure there were many fathers who would have loved those babies if they had been given the chance, and who probably broke their hearts when their loved partners were taken from them.
Were there ever any reparations paid to the survivors?
What is truly terrifying is that, nuns or not, these were people doing this. A large number of women who thought this was ok. Pure evil. It can’t have been isolated to just here. Sending women to these places was deemed normal by a lot of people at this time.