Ah, the Magdalene Laundries again. I always pronounce their name "Mawdlin", like the Oxbridge colleges. Everyone should.
It would obviously have been better for those girls in trouble to have slept on the streets, wouldn't it?
They would have had better lives as the beggars or prostitutes that they would otherwise have been, wouldn't they? They would have been so much better-treated over here in those days, wouldn't they?
The work of a washerwoman is beneath human dignity, isn't it?
Leaving school at 14 and going into work was otherwise unheard of among people now in their seventies and eighties, wasn't it?
No one else of that generation ever experienced violence at work, did they?
South of the Border, insofar as there was wrong done, then the Irish State, and not the Catholic Church, has clearly accepted the blame for it, since it is the Irish State, and not the Catholic Church, that has paid out to the victims of it. But now attention has moved to Northern Ireland. Get out of that one.
I sense even the Irish are start to get bored with the Bad Old Repressive Ireland narrative.
ReplyDeleteOf course, they have had a lot of immigration. These things mean less and less there.
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