The ugly face of liberalism has declaimed the Church as
child molesters and thugs who operated laundries and industrial schools. An attempt
is being made by the Irish Labour Party in the South of Ireland to drive the
Church out of education which would be gravely detrimental to the education of workers' children and the general quality of education.
Let us be clear.
The Church afforded sanctuary,comfort and solace to orphans and abandoned
mothers in the Magdalene Laundries which where operated until 1992 in the South.
Abuse has been greatly exaggerated.
In the era before social security payments became a legal right,
strict discipline was required to prepare young Irish boys for a life as migrant
labourers and tradesmen in England,
Scotland, Australia and America.A ferocious religious and racist bias was directed at the
Irish Catholics because of their religion and nationality in all these jurisdictions.
It would seem that the Christian Brothers and religious supervisors
were often brutal but this was no less than the brutal, demented employers
on whom their charges would be placed in a place of servitude, demanded.
Without a strict preparation for the world of work, Irish
orphans would not have survived.
The Irish emigrants' world of the 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s is not to
be judged by contemporary standards. Ireland was wretchedly poor and its emigrants unwanted.
You won’t hear that on the BBC or RTE or other schmaltzy radio or TV news broadcasts or from a shoneen politician such as Mary Harney, Hugh Coveney, Leo Varadkar, Mervyn Taylor or Alan Shatter.
You won’t hear that on the BBC or RTE or other schmaltzy radio or TV news broadcasts or from a shoneen politician such as Mary Harney, Hugh Coveney, Leo Varadkar, Mervyn Taylor or Alan Shatter.
The motto of all right-thinking people in those situations? Spare the rod and spoil the child!
