My mother was brought up half her life in madgalene laundry in cork and it doses not bare thinking about what theese poor girls went through words fail me may god bless each and every one of them.
@ivors1973 Hello. I'm interested to know about the Magdalene laundries activities in Cork. Do you know if they had several asylums? Could your mum remember where was hers? Thank you in advance.
Mark I was in there from 76-79.I was there when the lads were painting The Muppets in the playroom.The wallpaper on the landing was also there in my day.I used to love flying down the stairs,the room at top of the landing was a tv room and kitchen/diner.Sad to see the old playground has gone,many a fun day out there.It wasn't all bad at the good shepherds but I count myself lucky...Was also down in Passage West at Mount St.Josphes 81-84 and back again in 85,they were proper backward/deranged nuns down there,was a tough wee town in the early 80's with some good folk.I was also there for the infamous flood whilst serving mass at St.Marys 83?...Paddy.London...
I love this video. I've just watched the film "The Magdalene sisters" and i just had to find some stuff thats related to the film. I thought your video was amazing, and showed some people, like myself, who can't go to Ireland to see such things. Thanks for uploading it! 5 stars***** :)
Im not Catholic (thank God) but if I were I would jump ship! Ive just finished reading Kathy O'Beirnes book 'Dont ever tell' ...And Im lost for words ! Bless all the girls and boys who suffered in such places and at the hands of those who were meant to protect them the most.. SHAME SHAME SHAME
I was so moved by this video. What an oxymoron, a religion which preaches love, faith, forgiveness - and this, hell on earth, abuse and neglect. I cannot imagine what those walls have seen, but it breaks my heart.
It was not just the religion but the government that supported this also, along with the entire society basically. Plenty of blame. But I doubt anyone had a good time in that place including the sisters who were stuck there like everyone else.
my mother and three of my aunts were sent there when my grandfather died everytime i see a nun i get shivers down my back proper evil bastards they were
i remember as a 14 year old going into the convent on my way to fitzgeralds park to talk to the girls on the front lawn we would get so far before one of the devils would start shouting to get out i dident know what really was the reason why those poor misfourtunate girls were there for, so so sad and on my own doorstep as well, what good is any compensation to them women only they might get a small bit of happiness from it again so so sad
Hi Mary there is an excellent group on the net called justice for the Magdalens.. Many people who were resident in these places are members. A good place to start your research. Mark.
excellent video..ive so many pictures from outside but never been inside.an amazing building,and such tragic history attatched to it,is such a contrast...excellent upload ,really enjoyed watching it to be honest.....just a shame it was a building used for what it was and a building now forgotten after so many years of service..etc....
I want to have a wander round the old ml building....can someone tell me if its got security fencing and cctv and guards/dogs etc....or is their a hardback book with excellent photo footage of the building? or is the building owned by some straight laced heritage trust? Tell me....thanx.
thanx for getting back to me....when you say hop over a wall....what kinda wall....I cant jump a 6ft wall and it its smooth then I don't really wanna break my neck.....? Is the building still standing or a demolished pile of bricks? No barbed wire? So one could take abit of memrobelia from the place....is it remote or in a town next to houses or dog walkers go past? Are their signs saying keep out and the like as its other idiots spotting me that might cause trouble? let me knowx
hi i really liked ur videos, this building is really creepy. i visited High Park laundry the other day, and the whole time i was there i felt really uneasy. the music u selected, is very nice.
just watching this video makes me feel awful for them. I bet some jumped from those stair or atleast thought of it. Just watching in the different rooms and thinking about what could have taken place there. It's sad
I know what you mean. I'm reading Mary Raftery's "Suffer The Little Children" and I can't put it down!! Those poor little kids, what the hell did they do to deserve such horror?? The catholic church says they're doing the Lord's work, but they're doing the devil's deeds!! This is why I'm not into organized religion! I'll make sure to see Magadalen Sisters ASAP when I finish the book!
I tried to come into the convent last June, but all the gates were closed. Does anyone know if its still possible to come close to the former convent? I saw it only from the City Gaol Museum, but I would love to visit the convent from nearby or, even better, to see the inside of the convent.
as far i know little nellie was a young girl who was very holy and died young because of illness she loved JESUS most of the older generation would know more maybe she was a young saint she is revered by a lot of local people for her holiness
I've been inside this place several times- during both the daytime and nighttime. I captured some decent photos. I also managed to find a big board with a brutally sadistic poem printed on it: "Bothar An Ghort' ('The Famine Road'). Presumably, this poem was used for 'educational instruction'.. My friends and I experienced something unexplainable simultaneously whilst standing against a wall in a room on the western side, that appears to have been a kitchen of some sort once upon a time..
Irish Lullaby is on the Celtic Twilight Lullabies CD (as well as some other really great pieces). I'm going to have to find that Clannad piece:) It's lovely.
How hard was it for you to get into the building? A few days ago I recorded some valuable footage of the High Park Magdalene Laundry in Drumcondra, Dublin. I had to hop over a wall to get on the grounds though, it's a construction site. I haven't uploaded it yet but I got a lot of footage of the outside, not much of the inside though. The building was so delapidated it would have been dangerous to go inside.
Just like all over the world people were put into asylums of one description or another, society turned its back and said "as long as its not me I don't care"
i,m from cork and this is part of our past and i hope that the builting will stay we can learn from the mistakes don,t condemm these were the times sadly i believe in our church that jesus suffered with these people and i am tired of catholic bashers we were persecuted by so called protestants
Most of "Catholic Bashers" are people who are shocked , saddened & disappointed at what the Catholic church, was capable of doing,! The average person, looks at church as the house of Jesus, & expects to find peace, comfort & love, when they go in & light a candle or attend Mass. A safe refuge, from the world To find all this out, is horrific! No body wants to baßh anyone.
Crimes against children are the worst and STILL the Catholic Church remains in power and these woman and children suffer terrible shame and depression. Punish these nuns and churches for the abuse against the most helpless woman and children. The world cannot continue to look the other way. Abuse destroys the future.
A knowledge of history is no mere diversion; without it, those fertile avenues of thought which have so often led to innovation and advance must be explored again, and without it the lesson of many a disastrous mistake which should have been learnt will be suffered once more..
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 You are completely right. Unfortuneatly Ulster Bank bought the development and in the middle of making it all into apartment blocks....Upsetting or what? :(
I am sorry for the experience of your great aunt. However, I am confident in my observations that modern Ireland is NOT a better place. The Church has given so much culture and definition to the world. There needs to be a clear understanding and division between the Church and those wrongdoers who hid behind the veneer of religion. Abusers must be brought to justice.
yes there was two laundries in cork l should know as l made visit my mum who spent twenty seven years there and my sister two years it just show your making comments and u know nothing please respect women alive and dead years ago all of lreland turned a blind eye stop making fun of people that cant defend themselfs if your a catholic go to church and pray for these poor women and count your lucky stars it wasnt your family it happened to
I have NO Respect for the Pope he knows about this and wont say sorry he either thinks that what happened was Right or is protecting the Church. This Man deserves no respect at all.
Strong catholic society abused my mum who spent twenty seven years in the laundries and died there no one questioned religon its good people have views it has nothing to do with reglion its the people who worked for the church and nuns entered the order half of them came from poor familes and were abused them selfs l blame backward lreland it was the dark ages l must say it is shameful to slag someone of for poor spelling you are luckly to have had a good education
@Dehzee How is this any different than saying to a german if you are german you should be ashamed (due to WWII &I ) and if you are English you should be ashamed (for what they put Ireland through) and if you are Spanish you should be ashamed (for civil war)...point is every place and religion throughout the world has a dark history that is shameful but you shouldn't condemn people based on their religious beliefs due to its forlorn history.
well sheila i am very much am awake and pratice my faith and receive the sacraments of the church i as a catholic believe in the teachings of our church i cannot answer for the sins of others i get tired of others christians bashing us for the sins of the past and those who abused the trust placed in them.Religion is also about forgiveness and we are all sinners how about praying for christian unity and yes i am serious about my faith
It was not only individuals who were guilty of the abuse and exploitation of children. It was an entire corrupt system, overseen and encouraged by the Catholic Church in Ireland. The Irish State provided money enough to keep the inmates healthy - even early on, when it couldn’t really afford to do so - but the Church skimmed (embezzled) so much that many died.
First, stealthpiccasso, I really appreciate your videos. I have learned a lot from them. Thank you. Second, for the people who are right now ragging on Catholics, remember that 'the white man' is also guilty of so much. Are you white? Is it alright for people to blame you for what 'the white man' has done? Don't blame all Catholics for the sin of some of them.
I watched the Magdalene Sisters and was not aware of these attrocities untill then. I cannot get my head round the fact it was the catholic church that let this happen. I am totally disgusted at it. Its no wonder our generation wants nothing to do with their religon. I think they should raise whats left of the place to the ground, the adults who were imprisoned there do not need a reminder of what they endured and neither do their families, they have their memories, thats enough.
@stealthpiccasso you have to remember that ireland was -and in some respects still is- highly religious. they had a strong community but were easily shunned if they didnt fit in. most of the time its was a priests suggestion to put the women there...and you didnt question a priest, their word was law. nobody outside really knew what it was like, all they knew was that these were fallen women who deserved to be punished
Basically, this is true face of any religion, especially abrahamic, especially christianity, especially catholicism. Entitlement, power hunger, abuse, etc.
They should turn this and buildings like it into museums and shrines to be historical sites, like old prisons are now, to testify to the burdens they once placed on women and children, and the abuses of a Roman Catholic authority in Ireland. It is silly to let it go to disrepair, and criminal to sell it off as they have done to most of the sites, making them forgotten, disappeared. Something which never was permitted by the Jews of the Holocaust camps. This a type of Holocaust. needs history.
@Dehzee (Sorry ran out of space) and that were residents in industrial schools etc....were still devout Catholics right until their last breath and the many that still survive today are still devout Catholics and these are the people that have the perfect excuse to NOT remain faithful to this religion...Religion may be a choice that is true but some people really truly believe in this faith even the ones that have been through such hardship with it (such as the above).
My grandmother was reared here. The outrage I hear here is wide of the mark and a bit too simplistic. If you an analysis of how the state transferred the responsibility of civilising it's population. Read Tom Inglis "Moral monopoly". Remember, those of you who attack the church that your mothers and fathers (as did mine) supported the church. Most still do. I think its a shame that this building has gone to ruin. It has a chance of redemption as a positive resource for the community.
I'm guessing you were meant to say not be proud of. I am not trying to get into an argument here. I studied this in University and wrote an entire thesis on the industrial school scandal and child neglect and Catholicism in Ireland. I totally get what you are saying I just think it is rather harsh to penalise EVERYONE due to the mistakes of a minority. If you have truly watched the documentaries and read the books you would know that the many people that went through these institutions.....(TBC)
Y'know he showed the gravestone of Little Nellie of God. She was over 4 years old when she died. She went into the Good Shepard Convent when she was two and she was very ill. She lived to see and speak to God in those two years because she loived him so. She was also responsible for bringing the age of Communion down from the age of 10/12. A year after she died, they removed her coffin from the public graveyard to the Convent graveyard. When they opened the coffin her body was incurrupt
townsin11 I don't get you Irish one min you hate the English the next she is a saint. The poor soul was probably just a favourite of one of the paedo priests.
@1980evie Are you joking? I'm sorry, but that I personally think that that would not be a very good idea. So many awful things happened on these sites; rapings, beatings, slavery...No, I think it would be best to build a memorial and a PROPER APOLOGY from the Church and the morons who let this...awful thing happen. Childhoods were stolen and if you were raped by a "Holy Priest" and told, you were automatically sent to an Asylum, from which you had to be lucky to get out.
Who is to blame...? Sure the Catholic Church for openly stealing thousands of lives Before depositing many of them in unmarked graves. However, should we not also point an equally accusing finger in the direction of a society that condoned this behaviour by their lack of resistance. People knew where their daughters were going, there was no uprising to bring the Magdalen Laundries to a close.
i am happy to be baptised into the catholic faith and i will always defence those who attack JESUS CHRIST and his church obviously some here are ignorant of the truth and tell lies to this discredit others GOD BLESS to all
Broadley green you must be crazy. The very fact that these atrocities were condoned in the first place is bad enough never mind the fact they were carried out on tens of thousands of women. they had no qualoty of life and the Catholic Church had knowledge of this and to this day is not releasing any information on the matter. Yes, the CC has done some good, but in light of the atrocities that have been revealed over the last few years, it will be tough to trust the CC again.
I wonder if the parents (mothers) knew exactlly whats going in those laundries to send your child there .parents are ae suppose to protect the kids didnt they love them or miss them no guilt no mercy they must have been made of stone like walls of the hell they daughters to live stone cold hell laundries
There are testimonies from survivors here on UA-cam and they were sent there very young,8,12 and similar ages for no reason than being poor .Mothers and families were told their girls were going to get an education and for them it was a less mouth to feed.Families received fake school reports.They had no idea they were sending their daughters to slavery for profit and no education at all as promised.Here an example and many more ua-cam.com/video/-EvvWxHXuzY/v-deo.html
Not everyone that Jesus died for will go to heaven, only those who, as Jesus put it, "Do the will of My Father in Heaven." I'm sure you agree that much of what has been done in His name could never be construed to have been His will.
The place certainly retains certain trapped energies.. A shiver ran up my spine more than once whilst videoing.
My mother was brought up half her life in madgalene laundry in cork and it doses not bare thinking about what theese poor girls went through words fail me may god bless each and every one of them.
BEAR NOT BARE
@ivors1973 Hello. I'm interested to know about the Magdalene laundries activities in Cork. Do you know if they had several asylums? Could your mum remember where was hers? Thank you in advance.
Mark I was in there from 76-79.I was there when the lads were painting The Muppets in the playroom.The wallpaper on the landing was also there in my day.I used to love flying down the stairs,the room at top of the landing was a tv room and kitchen/diner.Sad to see the old playground has gone,many a fun day out there.It wasn't all bad at the good shepherds but I count myself lucky...Was also down in Passage West at Mount St.Josphes 81-84 and back again in 85,they were proper backward/deranged nuns down there,was a tough wee town in the early 80's with some good folk.I was also there for the infamous flood whilst serving mass at St.Marys 83?...Paddy.London...
labesp
If the wall's could talk 👍🏻☘️
I love this video. I've just watched the film "The Magdalene sisters" and i just had to find some stuff thats related to the film. I thought your video was amazing, and showed some people, like myself, who can't go to Ireland to see such things. Thanks for uploading it! 5 stars***** :)
Thankyou for your comment, this place certainly evokes strong emotions.
Im not Catholic (thank God) but if I were I would jump ship! Ive just finished reading Kathy O'Beirnes book 'Dont ever tell' ...And Im lost for words ! Bless all the girls and boys who suffered in such places and at the hands of those who were meant to protect them the most.. SHAME SHAME SHAME
I was so moved by this video. What an oxymoron, a religion which preaches love, faith, forgiveness - and this, hell on earth, abuse and neglect. I cannot imagine what those walls have seen, but it breaks my heart.
It was not just the religion but the government that supported this also, along with the entire society basically. Plenty of blame. But I doubt anyone had a good time in that place including the sisters who were stuck there like everyone else.
Knowing the history behind this place, and places like it, seeing the ruins, and the music in the background. It's all very sad.
love these old building its such a shame letting them rot. Thanks for sharring. :-)
my mother and three of my aunts were sent there when my grandfather died everytime i see a nun i get shivers down my back proper evil bastards they were
Rest Peacefully all the Magdelene Girls & Women x x x
nice work mate, so well done, music compliments this big style, very proud of you son ;)
i remember as a 14 year old going into the convent on my way to fitzgeralds park to talk to the girls on the front lawn we would get so far before one of the devils would start shouting to get out i dident know what really was the reason why those poor misfourtunate girls were there for, so so sad and on my own doorstep as well, what good is any compensation to them women only they might get a small bit of happiness from it again so so sad
Thank you, glad you liked it.
Hi Mary there is an excellent group on the net called justice for the Magdalens.. Many people who were resident in these places are members. A good place to start your research. Mark.
I was amazed that the last laundry closed in 1996 i wonder if the slavery and beatings were still common then, really is dispicable.
It was probibly very much so!
Arghhh ... Clannad ... my ears my ears ;-).
Yet another cool video dude ... also adds an extra dimension to your already superb pictures!
excellent video..ive so many pictures from outside but never been inside.an amazing building,and such tragic history attatched to it,is such a contrast...excellent upload ,really enjoyed watching it to be honest.....just a shame it was a building used for what it was and a building now forgotten after so many years of service..etc....
I want to have a wander round the old ml building....can someone tell me if its got security fencing and cctv and guards/dogs etc....or is their a hardback book with excellent photo footage of the building? or is the building owned by some straight laced heritage trust? Tell me....thanx.
ppppppppppp no security guards no dogs and no CCTV but you'll have to hop over a wall to get in there . gate will be locked ..
thanx for getting back to me....when you say hop over a wall....what kinda wall....I cant jump a 6ft wall and it its smooth then I don't really wanna break my neck.....? Is the building still standing or a demolished pile of bricks? No barbed wire? So one could take abit of memrobelia from the place....is it remote or in a town next to houses or dog walkers go past? Are their signs saying keep out and the like as its other idiots spotting me that might cause trouble? let me knowx
ppppppppppp Its just dangerous. There could be falling masonary. Its a shell.
No one cares if you get in.
Why would you want to take stuff :(
Does any one know the approx year when this convent/laundry closed? So sad what went on in these places.
In the 1990s
so haunting and sad.....
hi i really liked ur videos, this building is really creepy. i visited High Park laundry the other day, and the whole time i was there i felt really uneasy. the music u selected, is very nice.
Is it still like this? I live in cork and may go to look around
what music did you use for this? it's beautiful... i want to find it...
just watching this video makes me feel awful for them. I bet some jumped from those stair or atleast thought of it.
Just watching in the different rooms and thinking about what could have taken place there. It's sad
I know what you mean. I'm reading Mary Raftery's "Suffer The Little Children" and I can't put it down!! Those poor little kids, what the hell did they do to deserve such horror?? The catholic church says they're doing the Lord's work, but they're doing the devil's deeds!! This is why I'm not into organized religion! I'll make sure to see Magadalen Sisters ASAP when I finish the book!
I don't wish to seem ignorant but who was 'Little Nellie'?
A sait at 5 year's old 👍🏻☘️
@MsMarycollins Hi mary my mother was also brought up half her life in this convent and i know how you feel you are not alone.
I tried to come into the convent last June, but all the gates were closed. Does anyone know if its still possible to come close to the former convent? I saw it only from the City Gaol Museum, but I would love to visit the convent from nearby or, even better, to see the inside of the convent.
Mary no ones making fun of anybody take care and GOD BLESS
as far i know little nellie was a young girl who was very holy and died young because of illness she loved JESUS most of the older generation would know more maybe she was a young saint she is revered by a lot of local people for her holiness
I've been inside this place several times- during both the daytime and nighttime. I captured some decent photos.
I also managed to find a big board with a brutally sadistic poem printed on it: "Bothar An Ghort' ('The Famine Road'). Presumably, this poem was used for 'educational instruction'..
My friends and I experienced something unexplainable simultaneously whilst standing against a wall in a room on the western side, that appears to have been a kitchen of some sort once upon a time..
Thanks Andy...
Appreciated Justin..
i second that motion!
Irish Lullaby is on the Celtic Twilight Lullabies CD (as well as some other really great pieces).
I'm going to have to find that Clannad piece:) It's lovely.
omg i was here St Anne's,good place😻😍
How hard was it for you to get into the building? A few days ago I recorded some valuable footage of the High Park Magdalene Laundry in Drumcondra, Dublin. I had to hop over a wall to get on the grounds though, it's a construction site. I haven't uploaded it yet but I got a lot of footage of the outside, not much of the inside though. The building was so delapidated it would have been dangerous to go inside.
sandufilms Easy just hop over one wall , no security whatsoever
I know it's history is mixed but it was some building for it time. I have to say that as my great great grandfather built it.
Does anyone know the piece of music being played?
Um. Not even close! LOL
what is the music with this video, please?
beautiful piece of music to accompany a brilliant video.
if the walls could talk eh ?
"The laundry building was among a number of buildings that were destroyed in that fire". How convenient
Totally heart breaking
And these lovely, holy 'Sisters of Charity' dont want to give to those who were enslaved in these places.
I was born in a mother & baby home in Cork, not sure if this is it, my twin died, I presume due to conditions. Burial place unknown.
my sister went there sadiy she took her life in her twentys and my mum was in saint vincent she die there it makes me sad
Just like all over the world people were put into asylums of one description or another, society turned its back and said "as long as its not me I don't care"
i,m from cork and this is part of our past and i hope that the builting will stay we can learn from the mistakes don,t condemm these were the times sadly i believe in our church that jesus suffered with these people and i am tired of catholic bashers we were persecuted by so called protestants
Most of "Catholic Bashers" are people who are shocked , saddened & disappointed at what the Catholic church, was capable of doing,! The average person, looks at church as the house of Jesus, & expects to find peace, comfort & love, when they go in & light a candle or attend Mass. A safe refuge, from the world To find all this out, is horrific! No body wants to baßh anyone.
..What happened to the music it used to have!
Crimes against children are the worst and STILL the Catholic Church remains in power and these woman and children suffer terrible shame and depression. Punish these nuns and churches for the abuse against the most helpless woman and children. The world cannot continue to look the other way. Abuse destroys the future.
A knowledge of history is no mere diversion; without it, those fertile avenues of thought which have so often led to innovation and advance must be explored again, and without it the lesson of many a disastrous mistake which should have been learnt will be suffered once more..
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 You are completely right. Unfortuneatly Ulster Bank bought the development and in the middle of making it all into apartment blocks....Upsetting or what? :(
Was the movie filmed on this actual location?
No.
Was filmed in Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
I am sorry for the experience of your great aunt. However, I am confident in my observations that modern Ireland is NOT a better place. The Church has given so much culture and definition to the world. There needs to be a clear understanding and division between the Church and those wrongdoers who hid behind the veneer of religion. Abusers must be brought to justice.
yes there was two laundries in cork l should know as l made visit my mum who spent twenty seven years there and my sister two years it just show your making comments and u know nothing please respect women alive and dead years ago all of lreland turned a blind eye stop making fun of people that cant defend themselfs if your a catholic go to church and pray for these poor women and count your lucky stars it wasnt your family it happened to
I have NO Respect for the Pope he knows about this and wont say sorry he either thinks that what happened was Right or is protecting the Church. This Man deserves no respect at all.
interesting, I stumbled on this looking for a Morrissey song
@360crowley
How many ghosts do they have I wonder.
Strong catholic society abused my mum who spent twenty seven years in the laundries and died there no one questioned religon its good people have views it has nothing to do with reglion its the people who worked for the church and nuns entered the order half of them came from poor familes and were abused them selfs l blame backward lreland it was the dark ages l must say it is shameful to slag someone of for poor spelling you are luckly to have had a good education
those poor girls.. if there was a god it should never forgive us for this.
then maybe u should know what used to happen in that place
@Dehzee How is this any different than saying to a german if you are german you should be ashamed (due to WWII
&I ) and if you are English you should be ashamed (for what they put Ireland through) and if you are Spanish you should be ashamed (for civil war)...point is every place and religion throughout the world has a dark history that is shameful but you shouldn't condemn people based on their religious beliefs due to its forlorn history.
woweecherry2007 Right! Level, logical thought.
woweecherry2007 what an Idiot you are
my American - Irish Catholic grandmother put me up for adoption in America, same sad story as all the others, with great regret this is my history.
@celticlofts
As long as they have control of the schools nothing will change.
NEVER TRUST THE CLERGY, NEVER.
To be honest I don't trust clergy catholic or protestant. I know there must be good ones to me they are just to good to be true.
well sheila i am very much am awake and pratice my faith and receive the sacraments of the church i as a catholic believe in the teachings of our church i cannot answer for the sins of others i get tired of others christians bashing us for the sins of the past and those who abused the trust placed in them.Religion is also about forgiveness and we are all sinners how about praying for christian unity and yes i am serious about my faith
It was not only individuals who were guilty of the abuse and exploitation of children. It was an entire corrupt system, overseen and encouraged by the Catholic Church in Ireland. The Irish State provided money enough to keep the inmates healthy - even early on, when it couldn’t really afford to do so - but the Church skimmed (embezzled) so much that many died.
@@roberthaworth8991 and now they provide for the murder of babies in the womb 50000 already do u have a opinion on this or just hate the church
First, stealthpiccasso, I really appreciate your videos. I have learned a lot from them. Thank you. Second, for the people who are right now ragging on Catholics, remember that 'the white man' is also guilty of so much. Are you white? Is it alright for people to blame you for what 'the white man' has done? Don't blame all Catholics for the sin of some of them.
I watched the Magdalene Sisters and was not aware of these attrocities untill then. I cannot get my head round the fact it was the catholic church that let this happen. I am totally disgusted at it. Its no wonder our generation wants nothing to do with their religon. I think they should raise whats left of the place to the ground, the adults who were imprisoned there do not need a reminder of what they endured and neither do their families, they have their memories, thats enough.
@broadleygreen If they did so much help for some people, why did they torture these?
Money It all comes down to money!
@stealthpiccasso you have to remember that ireland was -and in some respects still is- highly religious. they had a strong community but were easily shunned if they didnt fit in. most of the time its was a priests suggestion to put the women there...and you didnt question a priest, their word was law. nobody outside really knew what it was like, all they knew was that these were fallen women who deserved to be punished
Went to Catholic school. Everyone was afraid of the nuns - with good reason.
@bargeanimal Absolutely, assets should be seized and distributed to survivors.
@amaranthos3 I agree!
Basically, this is true face of any religion, especially abrahamic, especially christianity, especially catholicism.
Entitlement, power hunger, abuse, etc.
I don't think cult is a strong enough word, because that's what it was. Horrific.
They should turn this and buildings like it into museums and shrines to be historical sites, like old prisons are now, to testify to the burdens they once placed on women and children, and the abuses of a Roman Catholic authority in Ireland. It is silly to let it go to disrepair, and criminal to sell it off as they have done to most of the sites, making them forgotten, disappeared. Something which never was permitted by the Jews of the Holocaust camps. This a type of Holocaust. needs history.
HOW MANY SOULS WERE TAKEN BY THE NUNS INNOCENT SOULS
@Dehzee (Sorry ran out of space) and that were residents in industrial schools etc....were still devout Catholics right until their last breath and the many that still survive today are still devout Catholics and these are the people that have the perfect excuse to NOT remain faithful to this religion...Religion may be a choice that is true but some people really truly believe in this faith even the ones that have been through such hardship with it (such as the above).
My grandmother was reared here. The outrage I hear here is wide of the mark and a bit too simplistic. If you an analysis of how the state transferred the responsibility of civilising it's population. Read Tom Inglis "Moral monopoly". Remember, those of you who attack the church that your mothers and fathers (as did mine) supported the church. Most still do.
I think its a shame that this building has gone to ruin. It has a chance of redemption as a positive resource for the community.
Watch the movie, "The Magdalene Sisters." Ahhh - the good Catholic Church.
I'm guessing you were meant to say not be proud of. I am not trying to get into an argument here. I studied this in University and wrote an entire thesis on the industrial school scandal and child neglect and Catholicism in Ireland. I totally get what you are saying I just think it is rather harsh to penalise EVERYONE due to the mistakes of a minority. If you have truly watched the documentaries and read the books you would know that the many people that went through these institutions.....(TBC)
The whole building is scary. Obviously built to be a prison and not a pleasant place.
this building should of been burnt down with every single nun in it !!!!
Clannad, Harry's Game and the Irish lullaby..
Y'know he showed the gravestone of Little Nellie of God. She was over 4 years old when she died. She went into the Good Shepard Convent when she was two and she was very ill. She lived to see and speak to God in those two years because she loived him so. She was also responsible for bringing the age of Communion down from the age of 10/12. A year after she died, they removed her coffin from the public graveyard to the Convent graveyard. When they opened the coffin her body was incurrupt
townsin11 I don't get you Irish one min you hate the English the next she is a saint.
The poor soul was probably just a favourite of one of the paedo priests.
Spot on my friend 👍🏻☘️
@@barbara1904 how sad. Such hate in your heart
@THEGLASSOFMILK2 The land should be sold and money given to survivors.
fIND the nuns and put them on trial
@1980evie Are you joking? I'm sorry, but that I personally think that that would not be a very good idea. So many awful things happened on these sites; rapings, beatings, slavery...No, I think it would be best to build a memorial and a PROPER APOLOGY from the Church and the morons who let this...awful thing happen. Childhoods were stolen and if you were raped by a "Holy Priest" and told, you were automatically sent to an Asylum, from which you had to be lucky to get out.
more then likely he regards them as holy relics
More torture brought to you in the name of religion. Sisters Of Mercy my ***
Who is to blame...?
Sure the Catholic Church for openly stealing thousands of lives Before depositing many of them in unmarked graves.
However, should we not also point an equally accusing finger in the direction of a society that condoned this behaviour by their lack of resistance. People knew where their daughters were going, there was no uprising to bring the Magdalen Laundries to a close.
In that case, it is a really good thing that we are told to follow Christ and not other Christians. Keep that in mind.
Some look but do not see,,,,,,,,,,,I guess you are right. I am reminded of those who stood by and allowed Nazism to rise. Best wishes.
i am happy to be baptised into the catholic faith and i will always defence those who attack JESUS CHRIST and his church obviously some here are ignorant of the truth and tell lies to this discredit others GOD BLESS to all
It still isn't.....what happened to young boys was kept a secret even longer!!!
sorry then , i just read the first line and it pissed me off
Broadley green you must be crazy. The very fact that these atrocities were condoned in the first place is bad enough never mind the fact they were carried out on tens of thousands of women. they had no qualoty of life and the Catholic Church had knowledge of this and to this day is not releasing any information on the matter. Yes, the CC has done some good, but in light of the atrocities that have been revealed over the last few years, it will be tough to trust the CC again.
I wonder if the parents (mothers) knew exactlly whats going in those laundries to send your child there .parents are ae suppose to protect the kids didnt they love them or miss them no guilt no mercy they must have been made of stone like walls of the hell they daughters to live stone cold hell laundries
There are testimonies from survivors here on UA-cam and they were sent there very young,8,12 and similar ages for no reason than being poor .Mothers and families were told their girls were going to get an education and for them it was a less mouth to feed.Families received fake school reports.They had no idea they were sending their daughters to slavery for profit and no education at all as promised.Here an example and many more
ua-cam.com/video/-EvvWxHXuzY/v-deo.html
Hell House!!
Not everyone that Jesus died for will go to heaven, only those who, as Jesus put it, "Do the will of My Father in Heaven." I'm sure you agree that much of what has been done in His name could never be construed to have been His will.