The fact that this was part of ireland back in 1800 eds amazing there such little intrest in it todday there are local hse or doctors despencries and general hospitals one thing in common the hospitals are still overcrowded
It's called history, Marie; as a science, it weeds out (what its author considers to be) irrelevant or extraneous 'data' (e.g. the realities of being poor, of a cash-strapped government, or of the principles of 'care' laid down for the souls called upon to offer that government's penny-pinching and punitive services). Truth be told, nothing much has changed .. other than in the layers of smarmy rhetoric lacquered over the same more or less harsh regimes (now often more or less profit-making private companies, changing around or dissolving when the heat of 'inspection' comes close, i.e. Youth Detention, Migrant Hostels, etc). Mary Daly, in fact, does a rather good job in trying to achieve a workable balance between the overwhelming recorded data and presenting a more or less coherent and intelligible story .. but, remember, it is still just a story of sorts. ;o) P.S. That dilemma was at the heart of the recent fiasco of 'Reports' into the Church based 'abuses' in state-funded / charity run Poor Law institutions (not least the justice system's use of punishment via Laundries and the callous underfunding of orphanages etc). So the 'facts' were trimmed to fit the news material - as demanded by the reporting media - but mostly to provide a decent enough fig-leaf to cover the naked embarrassment of so many various government regimes. Remember, the Poor Law was a government issue .. the misuse and abuse of charitable effort was a neat ploy to keep the cost of upkeep to a very basic (or worse, a sub-basic) minimum .. and then to hold it all at arms-length from the ruling politicians (who were actually responsible for the provision) at the time; and keeping abusers in situ, believe it or not, was a reliably cheap way to side-step the need for proper supervision .. little or none of that came out during the report's work.
My great grandmother, Teresa Delany, was here from 1904 to 1916....
The fact that this was part of ireland back in 1800 eds amazing there such little intrest in it todday there are local hse or doctors despencries and general hospitals one thing in common the hospitals are still overcrowded
Just in there today gave me the creeps😖
crap not telling all the truth
It's called history, Marie; as a science, it weeds out (what its author considers to be) irrelevant or extraneous 'data' (e.g. the realities of being poor, of a cash-strapped government, or of the principles of 'care' laid down for the souls called upon to offer that government's penny-pinching and punitive services). Truth be told, nothing much has changed .. other than in the layers of smarmy rhetoric lacquered over the same more or less harsh regimes (now often more or less profit-making private companies, changing around or dissolving when the heat of 'inspection' comes close, i.e. Youth Detention, Migrant Hostels, etc). Mary Daly, in fact, does a rather good job in trying to achieve a workable balance between the overwhelming recorded data and presenting a more or less coherent and intelligible story .. but, remember, it is still just a story of sorts. ;o)
P.S. That dilemma was at the heart of the recent fiasco of 'Reports' into the Church based 'abuses' in state-funded / charity run Poor Law institutions (not least the justice system's use of punishment via Laundries and the callous underfunding of orphanages etc). So the 'facts' were trimmed to fit the news material - as demanded by the reporting media - but mostly to provide a decent enough fig-leaf to cover the naked embarrassment of so many various government regimes. Remember, the Poor Law was a government issue .. the misuse and abuse of charitable effort was a neat ploy to keep the cost of upkeep to a very basic (or worse, a sub-basic) minimum .. and then to hold it all at arms-length from the ruling politicians (who were actually responsible for the provision) at the time; and keeping abusers in situ, believe it or not, was a reliably cheap way to side-step the need for proper supervision .. little or none of that came out during the report's work.