My Uncles , Séamus, Patrick, and Eugene were to suffer the Horrors of Artane Industrial School in Dublin. I met a bloke at work some years ago, from Dublin and asked him if he’d heard of Artane.... He’s eyes filled with tears and he started pacing round the building site constantly changing direction as if he was lost, frightened and in a severe state of panic ... then he rushed toward me fists clenched as if he was about to attack me an through clenched teeth he spat the words “ Never, Peter, NEVER mention that place in front of me EVER again... you fuckin understand me.... NEVER...” And he walked off the site crying and howling .... I went round to see him after work, but his wife said.. Frank can’t speak at the moment ... and, Peter, there’s some things are best not mentioned again, do you understand. I just said , Yes I do understand... I’d 3 uncles that understood a lot more than me... She knew what I meant... She said I’ll tell Frank that you said that and it’ll make it a lot easier for him to face you at work, tomorrow. My uncle Séamus ( Jimmy ) spent a career in the Irish Guards and drove long distance lorries when he came out. When he was local he’d stay at ours and him an me Ma would talk of the days they lived in rural Cork , they spoke Gaelic, quite often so they could talk privately. He taught me some basics of Gaelic, counting, days of the week, some phrases , how sentences were constructed differently and how to write... I remember as a small child , I could hear him, beating his chest heavily in his sleep and quietly chanting what I later learned was Latin.... I asked me Ma if uncle Jimmy was ok.... she said if course he is... it’s all to do with the school he was at... but we don’t talk about that. He never married, Ma said he’d never had a woman’s company all his Life... He was a real hard bastard, but was the most gentlest gentleman I ever met. I still have his Guards Blazer and at 6’3” and 15 an a half stone... it’s still too big for me. Never got to meet Paddy or Eugene. Met an old bloke who knew Eugene, worked on the ships with him, told me a tale of him robbing people at knifepoint, when they’d drank all there money in New York. At Séamus’ funeral, Paddy was in prison in Exeter or somewhere. I now know the horrors they suffered... 150 to a dormitory, refectory that seated up to 850 lads. Soft lads or weaker with illness mainly starved...... Thought that was bad.... but, nearly 800 children’s corpses in a septic tank, in a small rural out post.? Have the Church been held to task for all of these , (there’s no other word for it), holocausts, dotted all over Ireland, who’s cure for being poor, illegitimate or orphaned is mental, physical and sexual torture to be followed by not an honourable funeral, but to be stuffed in the remains of a septic tank ? I’d say God Bless you Catherin Corless... but may the souls of those that you seek justice for, Bless you... You Cared Catherin.... you would not let it lie and say.... ah.. we don’t talk about that. My love and respect. Peter
Peter, my prayers to you & your Uncles for everything that they went through. I cannot imagine the horrors. Although I’m an American & not Catholic, I highly respect those who’ve gone through this kind of hell-on-earth & survived. May God bless you & your family.
@@walterwhite3018 Are you paid by catholic church? What about 750 more b bodies in school in Canada? How can you defend them. The bible says you will know false prophets by their fruit..🐺🐑🐑🐑🐑
Linda you are stronger than most of us, and a great deal better. My heart breaks thinking of the cruelty handed out to unmarried Mothers and their children. Irelands shame indeed.
Fred's Ferret, She had no reason to lie! We know there were good nuns and priests but this was in a different league. You can't defend the indefensible. Also she has NO reason to lie she is just presenting facts
my grandmother was raped at 14 put in one of these homes, they give the child away but distant relatives agreed to take him on in england and raise him for a sum of money, she spent a year there after she gave birth pleading to be brought home, she went home to face her attacker who had just been going on with his life, she was advised to go work somewere away she got work in the city and settled here, she never entered a church again apart from childrens communions etc that had to be a done thing, when speaking on it which she never did her face would say it all and all she would say about it was the rats that crawled her bed the crying and the pleading to go home, she met up with her son 40 years later, these nuns have alot to answer for
This is what I have been trying to say for a long time, especially in the Republic of Ireland , say anything about the church, and you are a hippacrite , you are a orange bastard, etc., Please people I am not any of those things, I, am comming 77, I follow the true laws of God as is written in the Bible, all the churches, all the cathedrals won't buy you a place in heaven, You need to follow the true laws of Almighty God , and one that is most broken is keeping the Holy Sabbath day, the bibical sabbath, not man's fake conterfeit sabbath day Sun -day brought in by a pagan Roman Emperor in the year 321 AD, to try and unify the Roman Empire. Check this out in History if you don't believe me, and read the Holy Scriptures. Put it to you this way, If I sent you to Tescos to buy me 1/2 a pound of Butter, and you brought me back 1/2 a pound of Margarine, I would say to you I, sent you to buy me butter, and you bring me back margarine, WHY, and you answer well it just the same, you can put it on your bread, and it's supposed to be good for you. I answer you, Yes, I know that, but I wanted the real Macoy, butter, the real thing, not man's fake conterfeit butter. You would probably look at me and shrug your shoulders, . How do you think Almighty God feels, when you walk and trample over his Holy DAY . The day that he wrote with his own finger in tablets of stone, eternally for ever. No change. GOD DID NOT CHANGE THE SABBATH DAY, JESUS DID NOT CHANGE THE SABBATH DAY, MAN CHANGED GOD'S HOLY DAY TO SUIT SATAN. JESUS SAID IN MARKS GOSPEL THEY WORSHIP ME IN VAIN, THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN. Just because some man in clerical garb, states that this is wright , doesn't mean it is right, GO TO GOD'S WORD, HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE BIBLE. THE KINGS JAMES VERSION IS A GOOD OLD COPY OF THE SCRIPTURES TO LOOK INTO. WE NEED TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT, JESUS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT SAVES, JESUS DIED AT CALVARY FOR YOUR SINS, HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR SINS GO TO HIM AND CONFESS, HE WILL FORGIVE YOU. JUST TO let you know Corona virus is a plague sent by God on this world, every country involved. Over 43,000 deaths in Britain from Corona Virus, but from lock down there has been 43,000 infants murdered by abortion . How do you think Almighty God feels when he looks down at his children's murders. Not a word about this in the press. I will stop . Thank you for reading God bless you all, Winifred Thompson, Lisburn. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
@@winifredthompson2470 Well, that was a load of garbage. What a shame yo've wasted 77 years of life on earth believing there is a grey -bearded sky fairy looking down over you. Have you ever thought about how, if you were born in another part of the world, you'd believe in a completely different sky-fairy? Put some thought into how Geography determines which nonsense you believe in.
Horrific! I remember as a Catholic child in the early 1960s at Catholic school; how cruel and abusive the nuns were. I cannot believe how abusive the nuns were on part time basis; I cannot even imagine on a full time basis! Also the Catholics had "limbo", and stated "the dead children that would not go to heaven"; even as a child I remember thinking how cold and evil they were to be talking so non mercifully and demonic against dead children. Those that were praying in churches never even thought to check on or help out these children, what about the teachers of these children? This story breaks my heart.
The missing children could have been tossed out with the trash or fed to the other children like they were animals. Shocking story. Bravo to this brave lady for being persistent and doing excellent research! As with child rape; the law enforcement, public and judges turn their ugly backs.
It was hardly just the nuns who could be evil. This comes from the very top, down. Remember the story of Cardinal Law in Boston in the U.S., who was aware of the transfer of predator priests from parish to parish - he in fact signed off on the transfers - and right when this story first began to break, rather than face any punishment at all, he was given a PROMOTION BY THE VATICAN, and sent to Rome. True story. This is what inevitably happens when you tell a small group of people that they are superior to ie more holy than other humans and that they are untouchable. Before long, power crazy people, abusers, child molesters and rapists will find their way into such an organization by whatever means it takes ie feigning religious belief and going thru those motions. Why? Because we showed them that here was an organization in which you could get away with the molestation and rape of hundreds of kids, and face zero consequences. It was a perfect storm.
@@curtandoscar yes it would remind me to make anyone i can try to watch Spotlight, in one sitting, i am from and still live in Ireland and one day as it was out a few weeks (not knowing this film was about rcc in such detail) i took myself to it and im so sad that my mother, and a friend or two i know have gone out of their way not just because its serious, but because they dont want reminding when they are actual catholics. I think if u stay with that faith, just as with islam you have a responsibility to at least not ignore what was and is done in the name of something as downright dangerous as organised religion .
I had the opposite experience and found the Sisters were always very kind and caring and devoted. They were good teachers too and so many people benefitted from their vocations. Ireland is much worse off now than it was then in terms of social well being and cohesion
It was called corporal punishment and was in all schools carried out by some sadistic teachers all over the UK, but just ignore that eh. Doesn't suit your agenda.
My nan grew up near one of the homes in cork and she told my mum once about it and she said it was awful the things she used to hear 😥but no one ever spoke about it 😥
Those poor, poor babies, children & unwed mothers. May God bless them & surround them with the love they didn’t encounter while here. And May God bless Ms. Catherine Corless for her willingness to bring peace to these little forgotten souls.
It is hard to believe there are people who dare to do thumbs down on an exposure like this, Those must be someone's who were a part of the evil deeds !
I think we all know who was to blame. The Catholic and Protestant churches. The staff and priests, nuns all knew what was going on. They are they the culprits.
@susanlaird5154 As a Protestant in her 70's, I can't say I ever knew of any "mother & baby homes" outside of the R.C. church. I'm not saying they didn't exist but I have no personal knowledge of any. I remember a few girls of my age being in that situation. One of them was a best friend at school. However, the girls just had their babies in a regular maternity unit and then brought them home, to be brought up with the rest of the family, until such times as the girl in question was able to move out independently and look after her own child or perhaps later get married. Of course the parents in that era would have preferred this didn't happen their daughter but they didn't banish her to some abusive system.
We should be forever grateful to Catherine Corless for her trojan work in revealing the horrors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. To all the Mothers, their Children and the Survivors of these places of evil, I wish you have the strength to go on after the horrors that you endured. What kind of Society allowed this to happen and why didn't the Senior Religious shout STOP. What an appalling legacy you have left, shame on the Perpetrators and shame on those who simply turned a blind eye. What of the poor Children, some of whom were scarred for life and had to carry the stigma of their situation imposed by a Patriarchal, Hierarchical Male Dominated Church. To those poor Women and their Children, I hope you shine like Beacons and continue to call out this Cruelty carried out in the name of Christianity.
I have looked at several of these stories=Mother/Baby homes and Laundries. It amazes me that the catholic church had in it's service nuns and priest that partook in these sinister things and none of them will step forward with a truth. Make you wonder what kind of people became nuns and priest and where the hell they came from. None of them want to loose their "pensions". So it is better to die with the knowledge that they particapated in this ABUSE of their fellow humans. What kind of church is this?? Of course having grown up in America I have only recently found out about these things in Ireland. Oddly though the strange catholic thinking was one I grew up with. The catholic faith = religion is entirely legallistic /void of a kind Creator. This sad knowledge only confirms this sad ugly truth about catholism. I personally can not abide in this horrible faith. My heart goes out to the multitude of abused women and children.
The fact is that many who become nuns or priests are very damaged people, themselves. The priests were the 'sissies' in the family and got the treatment that goes with that, including the family's embarrassment - so the families were all too happy to see them go where there was no stigma to being effeminate. For nuns it is often the same. Fanatic religiosity is often the sign of a mental illness, and, I believe that once inside the institution it was the same as the German soldiers who became immune to cruelty though were normal men before. If you read some of the stories by nuns who left the Carmelite order, the treatment of the young nuns was as brutal, if not more so, than that of the Magdelines. Extreme discipline and isolation can do terrible things to human beings.
priests and nuns were not to be questioned and more to be feared and respected and l was an 80s kid so l can only imagion they were worse in the 60s 70s right up until l was 7 they were allowed to smack you in my school run by nuns
Absolute respect to this woman and her colleagues for the work they are doing. This is the first time I’ve even heard of all this and that sickens me even more the fact I am Irish and never knew about it at all. I hope you get to the bottom of all this someday and get them children the respect and remembrance they deserve.
Bullshit. Spare us all this waffle about black mass and satan. This is the Catholic Church. This is the organisation that ran Ireland. Don't dress it up as some pantomime.
Right, Elizabeth. This bullshit about black masses and Satanists is just another distraction by lunatics that are caught up in the slipstream of their own overactive imaginations. It was done by evil minds that were the product of an evil belief system that allowed the worship death over life.
sadly not the only secrets there hiding graveyards full of disposed babies all round lreland and money passed in hand for silence by priest to workers blood on there hands
@@elizabethhenry6605 Thankyou for saying what i always thought privately. I never thought I'd ever hear another person say. Yet it needs to be said loudly, and proclaimed, especially that those who hide behind false fear are brought out in to the light and their evil deeds shown.
Bravo to Ms Corless. She is a great heroine for what she did. So incredible that it took one woman to refuse to give up for the truth to be revealed. This should have been investigated and revealed by authorities, documentary filmmakers, historians. She was none of these things. Just someone who had a great moral sense, and was curious and determined. Thank you.
The convent laundy work houses with the "fallen" girls who slaved for free as penitence for their sins (and to hide them away from society) are some of the saddest stories I've read. :-(
I have also sought out every article & documentary I can find. I find no reason to follow Catholicism. It is not honorable, it is not moral, it is shameful for what it has tried to cover up. SHAMEFUL!
This ws looked on as an awful cime if girl had a baby out of wedlock . The chuch used these girls as slave labour. The children were called bastards. Not all parents w ould have done this, but at that time it was a slur on the family. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
@@seancoleman5021 there was a film done "The Butterbox Babies" it was in a home for unwed mothers and a foundling home in eastern Canada. Horrific goings on there.
Never refer to the 'Roman Catholic church' as a christian church, which it definitely is not! What amazes me is why has it taken so long for this whole issue to come out? Why were there no whistle blowers at the time, or nearer to the time?
Probably police were all RCC, lots of reasons. I'm sure it was thought to be blasphemous to accuse a priest or nun. Also I think there was less caring for kids in general, in the public mind, they tended to think it was the child's fault or he/she was a liar.
The church owned the Gardaí, the Catholic Church were above all law, did whatever they wanted. They got away with it because of the soft minds of people indoctrinated from birth that refused to talk badly about their beloved church.
@@afufle the hierarchy was supremely controlling, abusive, secretive, and covered their moves well. They did this all for control. They didn't have social media back then, or press coverage anything like what developed in the twentieth century, and early twenty first. To me it's like organized crime using religion, and sometimes honest people as cover.
It seems that its not these children that need to have their dignity given back to them, (via a plaque)... but the entire community of ireland who lived through these times when these things went on. Its the Irish community itself who lost their dignity. The Catholic church never had any.
Martina Murray, It's easy to slander someone especially when they're dead and can't explain what really is going on. Everyone, including Mother Theresa, has failings and dark spots in their past. So what! I don't know what he said about her but who here is able to prove or disprove any of it? Were we in India when she made decisions about how to run her shelter? I don't know what she was really doing and neither does Christopher Hitchens. A person like Mr. Hitchens has a grudge against God & his One True Church ( The Catholic Church )that he won't deal with in a productive way. He handles his anger by trying to destroy God and all people who believe in Him. This "expose" of Mother Theresa isn't about her--or God. It's about Mr. Hitchens psychological problems. Don't be taken in by him because he isn't in the business of proving anything--he's in the business of trying to destroy others because of his own problems.
excuse me this is acase of the pot calling th kettle black ,why don,t YOU JUST SHUT UP ABOUT THINGS YOU CLEARLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT,you clearly an apologist for the abuses of the Catholic church, and I highly doubt you are an atheist either.
"a first cousin of Selfishness and self absorbedness the ''ME......ME......and more ME society''........currently prevalent" Speak for youself! this is totally irrelevant to the topic at hand and in fact COULD NOT BE ANY FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH,having concern for the people who suffered in the past(the Tuam mothers and babies) and those who are homeless today,which is the only thing it was possible for anyone to agree with you on,is hardly "ME ME ME" ,NOW IS IT!!!
Thousand of children died in Hospitals of the same conditions, disease and malnutrition, do you also blame the doctors and nurses, are you totally naive, or just another dumb bigot.
@@freddyferret2313 If a child dies of malnutrition, or a disease aggravated by malnutrition, their carers ARE likely to be at fault if there's no famine. The bishops argued that the locked-up children caught the same infections that their peers did in the towns, but (usually) nobody checked the numbers: not even the registry office people who should have.
@@freddyferret2313 affection, being played with, picked up and stroked, sing to, etc., all play an important part in the development of the immune system. If the nuns belonged to a church that listened to Jesus and obeyed the Holy Spirit, these children would not have been neglected this way. Motherhood is a natural instinct, but it can be stifled and cut off. In the Catholic church, it often was. This was a seriously neglectful and filthy sinful, and uncaring enabler church. Those children died of disease because of neglect.
@@lizh1988 So your point is that millions of children died from diseases because their parents never picked them up or sang to them, your point is insane, only another ignorant bigot.
@@faithlesshound5621 I feel as if I'm talking to a brick wall, millions died from typhoid, Tb, flu etc, there where no vaccines, do you also blame the nurses because far more died in hospitals.
I was watching the movie Evelyn earlier and when I found out it was true, it broke my heart and then I started reading more about it. When I came across what happened, it brought tears to my eyes. Then I seen the story of the 80 yr old woman who found her 103 mother who is still alive, and then the mans story about how his sister died. Oh my goodness. So sad
this happened in the 80s as well a young Irish catholic girl handed over her new born baby to us as foster parents in england to be adopted to caring parents who came and collected from us months later along with catholic adoption agency babies mum having spent the last few months of her pregnancy over here under the pretence of training in her proffesion it was hard to understand at the time but sincerely hope the baby had a better life over here and mum did not suffer
May God bless you for bringing up the truth of this .This children are shurely in Heaven.People should pray for their mothers and more for their fathers and families who were responsable.
it's horrific what happened and still happens to innocent children on this hypocritical country. I have found out the law is there to protect the abuser and punish the abused.
The Irish people themselves are too blame, we gave the church the power and treated people cruelly because of it. Hiding behind the church is not going to work today. "Give a man a mask and he will show you his true face" Oscar Wilde.
My husband is from Mexico he told me his mother use to send him to the church for service he would run and play he hates that church !! My hubby said the nuns would slap the Hell out of him. To this day he hates the Catholic church.
God bless that lady for investigating and exposing what seems to be an Irish version of the Nazi Holocaust, only this time the victims were innocent little Irish children. Most of the Nazi camp guards were caught and tried as war criminals. I wonder will similar justice be done for those hundreds of babies and infants who were neglected and some of whom were dumped in a septic tank.This is a shame and a stain on the nuns who were involved and the church in Ireland!
And this headline from the 9th of March. " NO delgates showed up to open up a discussion. Dáil debate on Tuam mass grave delayed due to near empty chamber No TDs showed up? No one? Really.
How was the decision to treat children like that made? Who made that decision? When was that decision made? The State, at some level, colluded for sure, for the sake of convenience.
In the 1930's anywhere in the world, if a girl got pregnant, they had to be hidden away, I'm in the U.S., and my aunt was one of them, and then her baby was taken away.
That is Not Catholic teaching, full stop! Please see www.vaticancatholic.com also mostholyfamilymonastery.com for the true and honest teaching of the Traditional Catholic Church! God bless you! Pray for the truth which is beautiful!
That dreadful church taught pain and fear not love ! It's being exposed because we are entering a period of Love and all atrocities will come to the front! Naught but the truth prevail!
Thank you Catherine for bringing this to light for everyone to know what happened in Tuam. I would not know anything about this if it was not for you. I was always appalled about the Magdalen’s laundries but did not know anything about Tuam. God bless these 796 Babis and children . I hope that they eventually get a decent burial. Thank you from me.
My mother was in a convent in Manchester the convent of the good shepherds she said they were strict but never suffered any sexual abuse and some of the sisters were nice and some weren't I suppose she was lucky compared to what these poor women went through she was 12 went she went in in 1969 and 17 when she left all though she said her and the other girls had to work in the laundry but were also educated in the school and had Saturday afternoon off to go out and Sunday morning her friends were allowed out for a few hours after church so she had a lot more freedom then these poor women her father had to pay for her keep while she was there and was also well fed and went home for holidays and Christmas I can only assume that that home must have only been one of a few that treated there wards well I hope all these women get justice my mother is c of e and it was a Catholic services she had to attend to on Sundays but it never affected her in anyway she went on to have me and my two brothers also the reason she was there was she would not attend school when she was living at home with my lovely grandmother whom she doted on and my grandmother loved her very much as well they were like glue when she came home my mother and grandmother went everywhere together
What a truly horrifying thing to have happened those poor children and women lets hope ireland has learned something from this also Saffron Sugar in case you thought these comments were about english lessons they are not! When somebody finds they are losing an argument they turn into the grammer police, its sad as the original subject is forgotten!
It is now time that Ireland should become a secular state. Having the government screw you over is bad enough but the government and church combined, well that is just too much.
This brave woman persisted, Thank You. Eight Hundred Babies, the Catholic nuns starved 800 babies and buried them in the septic system and, of course, the boys involved were never even corrected. I saw that in Irish culture. The man was PROUD if, when his girlfriend got pregnant, he didn't "abandon" her! Bragging proud.
What a horrific warped way for a country to evolve with the complicity of the church - hard to believe so-called religion contributed to such barbaric treatment of girls, young women and their babies. Well done Catherin Corless for your hard work and determination to uncover the truth.
It would be interesting to know the kinds of women who became nuns in Ireland. What was their motivation? Did these women have a real vocation or did they just want to get away from the work, drudgery and the incessant child bearing of marriage, in a world where contraception is forbidden by religion?..........Some of these older Irish families were huge, 8,9,10 children and more.........Sometimes the convent was the only way out, whether they were suited to it or not.
right so according to the Irish times the babies where there and died due to medical conditions but according to the article it says that one Barry Sweeney said there where only 20 skeletons in there but that was 14 years after the home had been abandoned ..but if there is only 20 skeletons where are the rest of them if not buried in that hole?
Thought I'd share a poem I think best encapsulates the horror of what happened, with a call for humanity: At Tuam "Among the hundreds of children who stare up at us from their septic tank is James Muldoon, who died in 1927 at the age of four months. At least he would never be forced to thank the Lord for mercies large or small. That cry to high heaven must come from Brendan Muldoon, who died in 1943 at a mere five weeks. A teenage nun bows before an unleavened host held up by a priest like a moon held up by an ash tree. In 1947 the eleven month old Bridget Muldoon, a namesake of the mother who would shortly give birth to me, has already distinguished herself as being a bit of a bother while Dermott Muldoon, three months old in 1950, is about to join the ranks of my foster-sisters and foster-brothers in that unthinkable world where a wasp may recognize another wasp’s face and an elephant grieve for an elephant down at the watering place. " Paul Muldoon
To blame u married women for lose morals by shaming then when they got pregnant is wrong. Where is the responsibility of the men who impregnate these women. Since most of these pregnancies were rape/ incest related and some of our if love outside the bond of marriage the responsibility should be on both parties. The Irish Government should have had sex education in order to prevent unplanned pregnancy.
espero que con la investigacion que se esta haciendo gracas a esta señora muchos puedan encontrar a sus hermanos y familiares, niños que fueron enviados a los Estados Unidos y la investigacion siga hasta alla por medio de fundaciones e instituciones que se sumen a la busqueda y aunque ya de edad puedan abrazar a sus hermanos.
we can all rejoice: the second they took their last breath, those babies went straight to their Lord Jesus' waiting arms and His loving smile. Their pain and suffering are over. Stones and plaques are nice, beautiful but they're for us living--not for the little children who are joyful in their heavenly home. we can just say: those memorials are a celebration for us here, showing respect at last for little lives lived and cut short in disrespect. They were innocents; they are martyrs.
May the soul of every baby and child who died be at Peace in the Merciful Blue Light of Mother Mary and the smiling Light of God the Creator. Return to the Source of Happiness. 👼. Including my own sister, Dolores.
Government investigation over shows Burials in Tuam Mother and Baby home were handled , not by the nuns, but by Galway Council who supplied two workers to handle this (always had a problem imagining nuns digging large crypts!) There were SEVEN septic tanks around the home, so no matter where you buried anyone it was going to be near a septic tank.
Catherine Murphy, it certainly can! As followers of Jesus, we are called to love one another and to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This applied then, applies now and will apply forever. Now I agree that everyone in that society shared the guilt of what happened, but the nuns definitely could AND SHOULD have been loving to those children. I don't believe that anyone would have critized them for that, and if they did, so what, they would've had the best compliment from the Father of all!
Some of the community, ie practising Catholics also are failing to acknowledge the dispicable behaviour of so-called Christians. Attitudes can be almost dismissive with a tendency to minimise the crimes. Maybe the 3rd secret of Fatima is being revealed and the end of Catholicism is nigh.
She says, half-way through, that these children were buried without a thought. How does she know that? What does she think 'went on behind the walls'? Why does she say it is a septic tank when the recent official mentions two structures, one a septic tank filled with rubble and another structure, which might have been connected with the sewerage system, where the remains were found? Why all the outrage?
Journalists and academics should not be honoured for going along with a witch hunt. Indeed, they should be grateful they are allowed to keep their jobs. How many here make a genuine effort to be sceptical and objective?
Why would any human being be looked upon differently by any other human being? Nun or not? You are not telling me nuns never have sex or have had babies themselves and to view illegitimate babies differently? is just wrong. That to me is not a religion of love from God.
There is a Righteous Judge and He knows the answers ... There is a Day of Judgment and all will stand before Him ... and there will be Righteous Justice for ALL His Little ones. The penalty will be severe for those who claimed to work in His service and mistreated any of His children no matter what their ages. I believe they will live again in a better world when He will watch over them Himself.
To be fair to those nuns, they were severely under-staffed and under-funded, so of course the children would be neglected no mater what they did. I think the problem lied in the belief system that the church perpetrated; that children born out of wedlock didn't have the same worth as others born from married mothers. I have no use for the Catholic church.
This comment is 2 years after the original, but there is absolutely no excuse for these nuns. Being understaffed would certainly make things more difficult, however, if an average person were somehow forced into the same position, I feel that they would work until they dropped from exhaustion to do the best they could- hugging, loving the children, bathing and feeding the best they could. Demanding money from the “church” for food (the catholic church has a vast fortune, certainly enough to feed children in a mother-baby home). Nuns *should* be head and shoulders above the average person. Unfortunately, too many are in the church for the wrong reason. My heart breaks for these pregnant women, babies and children 😢
Who funded the convents for the care and upkeep of the children whose families did not want them? Who supplied food and clothing etc.? Girls became nuns and gave themselves to do voluntary work such as in those homes. Sounds like some of those little children were rejected by their families because they were disabled or epileptic.....what is the whole story?
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them." - Matthew 7:15-20
I'm watching this nearly 10 years later. Those children are still in the ground. This woman is a national hero.
And yet the die hard Catholics are on here trying to discredit her despite all the proof
@@TheScientist43
Their _dissociation_ *needs them to* and their need to show abaisence to perpetuate the dissociation.
My Uncles , Séamus, Patrick, and Eugene were to suffer the Horrors of Artane Industrial School in Dublin. I met a bloke at work some years ago, from Dublin and asked him if he’d heard of Artane.... He’s eyes filled with tears and he started pacing round the building site constantly changing direction as if he was lost, frightened and in a severe state of panic ... then he rushed toward me fists clenched as if he was about to attack me an through clenched teeth he spat the words “ Never, Peter, NEVER mention that place in front of me EVER again... you fuckin understand me.... NEVER...”
And he walked off the site crying and howling ....
I went round to see him after work, but his wife said.. Frank can’t speak at the moment ... and, Peter, there’s some things are best not mentioned again, do you understand.
I just said , Yes I do understand... I’d 3 uncles that understood a lot more than me... She knew what I meant... She said I’ll tell Frank that you said that and it’ll make it a lot easier for him to face you at work, tomorrow.
My uncle Séamus ( Jimmy ) spent a career in the Irish Guards and drove long distance lorries when he came out. When he was local he’d stay at ours and him an me Ma would talk of the days they lived in rural Cork , they spoke Gaelic, quite often so they could talk privately.
He taught me some basics of Gaelic, counting, days of the week, some phrases , how sentences were constructed differently and how to write...
I remember as a small child , I could hear him, beating his chest heavily in his sleep and quietly chanting what I later learned was Latin.... I asked me Ma if uncle Jimmy was ok.... she said if course he is... it’s all to do with the school he was at... but we don’t talk about that.
He never married, Ma said he’d never had a woman’s company all his Life...
He was a real hard bastard, but was the most gentlest gentleman I ever met.
I still have his Guards Blazer and at 6’3” and 15 an a half stone... it’s still too big for me.
Never got to meet Paddy or Eugene. Met an old bloke who knew Eugene, worked on the ships with him, told me a tale of him robbing people at knifepoint, when they’d drank all there money in New York. At Séamus’ funeral, Paddy was in prison in Exeter or somewhere.
I now know the horrors they suffered... 150 to a dormitory, refectory that seated up to 850 lads. Soft lads or weaker with illness mainly starved...... Thought that was bad.... but, nearly 800 children’s corpses in a septic tank, in a small rural out post.?
Have the Church been held to task for all of these , (there’s no other word for it), holocausts, dotted all over Ireland, who’s cure for being poor, illegitimate or orphaned is mental, physical and sexual torture to be followed by not an honourable funeral, but to be stuffed in the remains of a septic tank ?
I’d say God Bless you Catherin Corless... but may the souls of those that you seek justice for, Bless you...
You Cared Catherin.... you would not let it lie and say.... ah.. we don’t talk about that.
My love and respect.
Peter
Peter, my prayers to you & your Uncles for everything that they went through. I cannot imagine the horrors. Although I’m an American & not Catholic, I highly respect those who’ve gone through this kind of hell-on-earth & survived. May God bless you & your family.
You wrote that beautifully. That poor man..and your uncles. Life really isn't fair 😢
I’m so sorry to hear your uncle’s story. My heart breaks for him.
What an amazing person Catherin Corless.
If true, it was the same in other institutions all over. Only bigots target the Church.
Thank you for posting these and congratulations to Catherine Corless.
Are you ok? This amateur has been discredited by Brian Nugent who speaks with authority on the subject
@@walterwhite3018 Are you paid by catholic church? What about 750 more b
bodies in school in Canada? How can you defend them. The bible says you will know false prophets by their fruit..🐺🐑🐑🐑🐑
@@walterwhite3018 Correct. she's a proven liar. bigots want to believe any old tosh suits their agenda.
@@NMDecember1 Are you stupid, disease and poverty where the main causes, you come across as a far right fundamentalist.
@@walterwhite3018 disgusting, thankfully this along with other things woke up alot of especially younger peoples eyes up to the Catholic church.
Don’t let the sweet haunt you. Your excellent research and tenacity on this very sad affair is something to admire. Sending love
Here are 2 real actual historians not ould catholiphobic grannies
m.th-cam.com/video/hy0PyqrqNpM/w-d-xo.html
Brave woman who didn't stop to get to the truth. God Bless!
Deluded ,do you believe any old rubbish, it was spread to help the abortion campaign.
I was a"home" kid, and always treated differently.......... I'm 73 now, and To this day, I never feel that I'm equal to anyone else!
your more than equal your a survivor god bless you💚
thank you for sharing.
God bless you..
Linda you are stronger than most of us, and a great deal better. My heart breaks thinking of the cruelty handed out to unmarried Mothers and their children. Irelands shame indeed.
Im so sorry they made you feel that way, you did nothing wrong. 💕💕
Deeply moving and powerful interview. Thanks for posting.
And utter pish.
Fred's Ferret,
She had no reason to lie!
We know there were good nuns and priests but this was in a different league.
You can't defend the indefensible.
Also she has NO reason to lie she is just presenting facts
This was not abortion. but it WAS EQUALLY a ad bad.
It was infanticide
my grandmother was raped at 14 put in one of these homes, they give the child away but distant relatives agreed to take him on in england and raise him for a sum of money, she spent a year there after she gave birth pleading to be brought home, she went home to face her attacker who had just been going on with his life, she was advised to go work somewere away she got work in the city and settled here, she never entered a church again apart from childrens communions etc that had to be a done thing, when speaking on it which she never did her face would say it all and all she would say about it was the rats that crawled her bed the crying and the pleading to go home, she met up with her son 40 years later, these nuns have alot to answer for
Youll Donuttin I'm so glad she met her son. What terrible suffering they must have both endured.
Youll Donuttin your poor grandmother...x
It was shameful the way unmarried mothers and illegitimate children were treated.
This is what I have been trying to say for a long time, especially in the Republic of Ireland , say anything about the church, and you are a hippacrite , you are a orange bastard, etc., Please people I am not any of those things, I, am comming 77, I follow the true laws of God as is written in the Bible, all the churches, all the cathedrals won't buy you a place in heaven, You need to follow the true laws of Almighty God , and one that is most broken is keeping the Holy Sabbath day, the bibical sabbath, not man's fake conterfeit sabbath day Sun -day brought in by a pagan Roman Emperor in the year 321 AD, to try and unify the Roman Empire. Check this out in History if you don't believe me, and read the Holy Scriptures.
Put it to you this way, If I sent you to Tescos to buy me 1/2 a pound of Butter, and you brought me back 1/2 a pound of Margarine, I would say to you I, sent you to buy me butter, and you bring me back margarine, WHY, and you answer well it just the same, you can put it on your bread, and it's supposed to be good for you.
I answer you, Yes, I know that, but I wanted the real Macoy, butter, the real thing, not man's fake conterfeit butter. You would probably look at me and shrug your shoulders, .
How do you think Almighty God feels, when you walk and trample over his Holy DAY . The day that he wrote with his own finger in tablets of stone, eternally for ever. No change. GOD DID NOT CHANGE THE SABBATH DAY, JESUS DID NOT CHANGE THE SABBATH DAY, MAN CHANGED GOD'S HOLY DAY TO SUIT SATAN. JESUS SAID IN MARKS GOSPEL THEY WORSHIP ME IN VAIN, THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN. Just because some man in clerical garb, states that this is wright , doesn't mean it is right, GO TO GOD'S WORD, HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE BIBLE. THE KINGS JAMES VERSION IS A GOOD OLD COPY OF THE SCRIPTURES TO LOOK INTO. WE NEED TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT, JESUS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT SAVES, JESUS DIED AT CALVARY FOR YOUR SINS, HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN FORGIVE YOU OF YOUR SINS GO TO HIM AND CONFESS, HE WILL FORGIVE YOU.
JUST TO let you know Corona virus is a plague sent by God on this world, every country involved. Over 43,000 deaths in Britain from Corona Virus, but from lock down there has been 43,000 infants murdered by abortion . How do you think Almighty God feels when he looks down at his children's murders. Not a word about this in the press. I will stop . Thank you for reading God bless you all, Winifred Thompson, Lisburn. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
@@winifredthompson2470 Well, that was a load of garbage. What a shame yo've wasted 77 years of life on earth believing there is a grey -bearded sky fairy looking down over you. Have you ever thought about how, if you were born in another part of the world, you'd believe in a completely different sky-fairy? Put some thought into how Geography determines which nonsense you believe in.
Thank you for what you are doing for these forgotten children.
❤️ Angel babies 👼 ❤️
Horrific! I remember as a Catholic child in the early 1960s at Catholic school; how cruel and abusive the nuns were. I cannot believe how abusive the nuns were on part time basis; I cannot even imagine on a full time basis! Also the Catholics had "limbo", and stated "the dead children that would not go to heaven"; even as a child I remember thinking how cold and evil they were to be talking so non mercifully and demonic against dead children. Those that were praying in churches never even thought to check on or help out these children, what about the teachers of these children? This story breaks my heart.
The missing children could have been tossed out with the trash or fed to the other children like they were animals. Shocking story. Bravo to this brave lady for being persistent and doing excellent research! As with child rape; the law enforcement, public and judges turn their ugly backs.
It was hardly just the nuns who could be evil. This comes from the very top, down. Remember the story of Cardinal Law in Boston in the U.S., who was aware of the transfer of predator priests from parish to parish - he in fact signed off on the transfers - and right when this story first began to break, rather than face any punishment at all, he was given a PROMOTION BY THE VATICAN, and sent to Rome. True story. This is what inevitably happens when you tell a small group of people that they are superior to ie more holy than other humans and that they are untouchable. Before long, power crazy people, abusers, child molesters and rapists will find their way into such an organization by whatever means it takes ie feigning religious belief and going thru those motions. Why? Because we showed them that here was an organization in which you could get away with the molestation and rape of hundreds of kids, and face zero consequences. It was a perfect storm.
@@curtandoscar yes it would remind me to make anyone i can try to watch Spotlight, in one sitting, i am from and still live in Ireland and one day as it was out a few weeks (not knowing this film was about rcc in such detail) i took myself to it and im so sad that my mother, and a friend or two i know have gone out of their way not just because its serious, but because they dont want reminding when they are actual catholics. I think if u stay with that faith, just as with islam you have a responsibility to at least not ignore what was and is done in the name of something as downright dangerous as organised religion .
I had the opposite experience and found the Sisters were always very kind and caring and devoted. They were good teachers too and so many people benefitted from their vocations. Ireland is much worse off now than it was then in terms of social well being and cohesion
It was called corporal punishment and was in all schools carried out by some sadistic teachers all over the UK, but just ignore that eh. Doesn't suit your agenda.
Thank you so much for all your work in bringing this to light.
Catherine, those people who tried to silence you are cowardly and scared because you're strong and courageous
My nan grew up near one of the homes in cork and she told my mum once about it and she said it was awful the things she used to hear 😥but no one ever spoke about it 😥
Those poor, poor babies, children & unwed mothers. May God bless them & surround them with the love they didn’t encounter while here. And May God bless Ms. Catherine Corless for her willingness to bring peace to these little forgotten souls.
It is hard to believe there are people who dare to do thumbs down on an exposure like this,
Those must be someone's who were a part of the evil deeds !
Bride Colbourne My guess is they’re sad about what happened, not criticizing the video.
@@rainbowgirlism
They don't want to believe what the church done.
I think we all know who was to blame. The Catholic and Protestant churches. The staff and priests, nuns all knew what was going on. They are they the culprits.
@susanlaird5154 As a Protestant in her 70's, I can't say I ever knew of any "mother & baby homes" outside of the R.C. church. I'm not saying they didn't exist but I have no personal knowledge of any. I remember a few girls of my age being in that situation. One of them was a best friend at school. However, the girls just had their babies in a regular maternity unit and then brought them home, to be brought up with the rest of the family, until such times as the girl in question was able to move out independently and look after her own child or perhaps later get married. Of course the parents in that era would have preferred this didn't happen their daughter but they didn't banish her to some abusive system.
We should be forever grateful to Catherine Corless for her trojan work in revealing the horrors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. To all the Mothers, their Children and the Survivors of these places of evil, I wish you have the strength to go on after the horrors that you endured. What kind of Society allowed this to happen and why didn't the Senior Religious shout STOP. What an appalling legacy you have left, shame on the Perpetrators and shame on those who simply turned a blind eye. What of the poor Children, some of whom were scarred for life and had to carry the stigma of their situation imposed by a Patriarchal, Hierarchical Male Dominated Church. To those poor Women and their Children, I hope you shine like Beacons and continue to call out this Cruelty carried out in the name of Christianity.
Thank you to this lady for her hard work so everyone is heard dead or alive there story’s told ❤
The Innocence
We cry for you ,our Celtic babies
Asleep in that deep Dark pit
We will Light you a candle of hope
That will guid you, and keep you safe
We will Morn for you ,our babies
Weep for your little lost lives
For Your innocent young souls
In those lonely harsher times
Cry out for their anger and sadness
Rant and rave for their war
Build a memory in their garden
With ,a cross for every soul
We will go there to pledge our alligance
We will grieve ,for their mothers great loss
We will lead you ,out of the darkness
And honour your lives , with our love
©@lladybird
Clare Glynn Chitan
Beautiful 👼 ❤️
Heartbreaking. Thank you for posting
horrible men and women of the cloth
Heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing.
I have looked at several of these stories=Mother/Baby homes and Laundries. It amazes me that the catholic church had in it's service nuns and priest that partook in these sinister things and none of them will step forward with a truth. Make you wonder what kind of people became nuns and priest and where the hell they came from. None of them want to loose their "pensions". So it is better to die with the knowledge that they particapated in this ABUSE of their fellow humans. What kind of church is this?? Of course having grown up in America I have only recently found out about these things in Ireland. Oddly though the strange catholic thinking was one I grew up with. The catholic faith = religion is entirely legallistic /void of a kind Creator. This sad knowledge only confirms this sad ugly truth about catholism. I personally can not abide in this horrible faith. My heart goes out to the multitude of abused women and children.
The fact is that many who become nuns or priests are very damaged people, themselves. The priests were the 'sissies' in the family and got the treatment that goes with that, including the family's embarrassment - so the families were all too happy to see them go where there was no stigma to being effeminate. For nuns it is often the same. Fanatic religiosity is often the sign of a mental illness, and, I believe that once inside the institution it was the same as the German soldiers who became immune to cruelty though were normal men before. If you read some of the stories by nuns who left the Carmelite order, the treatment of the young nuns was as brutal, if not more so, than that of the Magdelines. Extreme discipline and isolation can do terrible things to human beings.
Shell T cowards, evil likes to hide and disguise its self.
It should hardly be a surprise, after all this is the church of the inquisition!
Interesting knowledge to behold=a lot to take in.
priests and nuns were not to be questioned and more to be feared and respected and l was an 80s kid so l can only imagion they were worse in the 60s 70s right up until l was 7 they were allowed to smack you in my school run by nuns
Absolute respect to this woman and her colleagues for the work they are doing. This is the first time I’ve even heard of all this and that sickens me even more the fact I am Irish and never knew about it at all. I hope you get to the bottom of all this someday and get them children the respect and remembrance they deserve.
It didn't happen. The reports have confirmed this.
@@hefellump1 what’s the true story then?
Bless you for bringing this to light..bless your hart
The graveyard is right behind my house in tuam......the catholic church has shut ye up...this needs to be sorted out straight away...cover up
Bullshit. Spare us all this waffle about black mass and satan. This is the Catholic Church. This is the organisation that ran Ireland. Don't dress it up as some pantomime.
Well said Elizabeth Henry
Right, Elizabeth. This bullshit about black masses and Satanists is just another distraction by lunatics that are caught up in the slipstream of their own overactive imaginations. It was done by evil minds that were the product of an evil belief system that allowed the worship death over life.
sadly not the only secrets there hiding graveyards full of disposed babies all round lreland and money passed in hand for silence by priest to workers blood on there hands
@@elizabethhenry6605
Thankyou for saying what i always thought privately.
I never thought I'd ever hear another person say. Yet it needs to be said loudly, and proclaimed, especially that those who hide behind false fear are brought out in to the light and their evil deeds shown.
This woman is a modest heroine for what she exposed.
Bravo to Ms Corless. She is a great heroine for what she did. So incredible that it took one woman to refuse to give up for the truth to be revealed. This should have been investigated and revealed by authorities, documentary filmmakers, historians. She was none of these things. Just someone who had a great moral sense, and was curious and determined. Thank you.
What an amazing woman. Well done
The convent laundy work houses with the "fallen" girls who slaved for free as penitence for their sins (and to hide them away from society) are some of the saddest stories I've read. :-(
that is being done. But pretending the past was all sunshine and roses is simply lying or being economical with the truth.
+Catherine Murphy what are you trying to suggest? Are you trying to say we should just forget about it?
to be raped was my grandmothers sin apartnely
I have also sought out every article & documentary I can find. I find no reason to follow Catholicism. It is not honorable, it is not moral, it is shameful for what it has tried to cover up. SHAMEFUL!
This ws looked on as an awful cime if girl had a baby out of wedlock . The chuch used these girls as slave labour. The children were called bastards. Not all parents w ould have done this, but at that time it was a slur on the family. Greetings from Northern Ireland.
There was a home like this in Canada, they threw babies out to die in wood butter boxes. In 1947, a lightning strike burnt it to the ground.
Sounds interesting. Any details? This sounds like a particularly lurid legend.
@@seancoleman5021 there was a film done "The Butterbox Babies" it was in a home for unwed mothers and a foundling home in eastern Canada. Horrific goings on there.
Horrifying
Never refer to the 'Roman Catholic church' as a christian church, which it definitely is not! What amazes me is why has it taken so long for this whole issue to come out? Why were there no whistle blowers at the time, or nearer to the time?
Probably police were all RCC, lots of reasons. I'm sure it was thought to be blasphemous to accuse a priest or nun. Also I think there was less caring for kids in general, in the public mind, they tended to think it was the child's fault or he/she was a liar.
The church owned the Gardaí, the Catholic Church were above all law, did whatever they wanted. They got away with it because of the soft minds of people indoctrinated from birth that refused to talk badly about their beloved church.
Ugly culture of ‘don’t talk about that’ that’s why. Horrific
@@afufle It was a time with little birth control and relentless pregnancies were a real burden, financially, emotionally and physically.
@@afufle the hierarchy was supremely controlling, abusive, secretive, and covered their moves well. They did this all for control.
They didn't have social media back then, or press coverage anything like what developed in the twentieth century, and early twenty first.
To me it's like organized crime using religion, and sometimes honest people as cover.
It seems that its not these children that need to have their dignity given back to them, (via a plaque)... but the entire community of ireland who lived through these times when these things went on. Its the Irish community itself who lost their dignity.
The Catholic church never had any.
read christopher hitchens analysis of mother teresa.....
Martina Murray, It's easy to slander someone especially when they're dead and can't explain what really is going on. Everyone, including Mother Theresa, has failings and dark spots in their past. So what!
I don't know what he said about her but who here is able to prove or disprove any of it? Were we in India when she made decisions about how to run her shelter? I don't know what she was really doing and neither does Christopher Hitchens.
A person like Mr. Hitchens has a grudge against God & his One True Church ( The Catholic Church )that he won't deal with in a productive way. He handles his anger by trying to destroy God and all people who believe in Him. This "expose" of Mother Theresa isn't about her--or God. It's about Mr. Hitchens psychological problems. Don't be taken in by him because he isn't in the business of proving anything--he's in the business of trying to destroy others because of his own problems.
excuse me this is acase of the pot calling th kettle black ,why don,t YOU JUST SHUT UP ABOUT THINGS YOU CLEARLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT,you clearly an apologist for the abuses of the Catholic church, and I highly doubt you are an atheist either.
and yet you have clearly displayed a lack of knowledge and arrogance here, if you reply again, you will have to be blocked.
"a first cousin of Selfishness and self absorbedness the ''ME......ME......and more ME society''........currently prevalent" Speak for youself! this is totally irrelevant to the topic at hand and in fact COULD NOT BE ANY FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH,having concern for the people who suffered in the past(the Tuam mothers and babies) and those who are homeless today,which is the only thing it was possible for anyone to agree with you on,is hardly "ME ME ME" ,NOW IS IT!!!
It's as if the Church believed that the "Right to Life" ended at birth.
Thousand of children died in Hospitals of the same conditions, disease and malnutrition, do you also blame the doctors and nurses, are you totally naive, or just another dumb bigot.
@@freddyferret2313 If a child dies of malnutrition, or a disease aggravated by malnutrition, their carers ARE likely to be at fault if there's no famine. The bishops argued that the locked-up children caught the same infections that their peers did in the towns, but (usually) nobody checked the numbers: not even the registry office people who should have.
@@freddyferret2313 affection, being played with, picked up and stroked, sing to, etc., all play an important part in the development of the immune system.
If the nuns belonged to a church that listened to Jesus and obeyed the Holy Spirit, these children would not have been neglected this way. Motherhood is a natural instinct, but it can be stifled and cut off. In the Catholic church, it often was. This was a seriously neglectful and filthy sinful, and uncaring enabler church.
Those children died of disease because of neglect.
@@lizh1988 So your point is that millions of children died from diseases because their parents never picked them up or sang to them, your point is insane, only another ignorant bigot.
@@faithlesshound5621 I feel as if I'm talking to a brick wall, millions died from typhoid, Tb, flu etc, there where no vaccines, do you also blame the nurses because far more died in hospitals.
I was watching the movie Evelyn earlier and when I found out it was true, it broke my heart and then I started reading more about it. When I came across what happened, it brought tears to my eyes. Then I seen the story of the 80 yr old woman who found her 103 mother who is still alive, and then the mans story about how his sister died. Oh my goodness. So sad
At least she wasn't aborted.
Catherine you are a blessing to all who love humanity..........thank you for outing this evil in Christ’s name amen . Grá
this happened in the 80s as well a young Irish catholic girl handed over her new born baby to us as foster parents in england to be adopted to caring parents who came and collected from us months later along with catholic adoption agency babies mum having spent the last few months of her pregnancy over here under the pretence of training in her proffesion it was hard to understand at the time but sincerely hope the baby had a better life over here and mum did not suffer
Better Th a than killing them off
Thank you I'm so those pleased the little children have voice. God bless you.
May God bless you for bringing up the truth of this .This children are shurely in Heaven.People should pray for their mothers and more for their fathers and families who were responsable.
it's horrific what happened and still happens to innocent children on this hypocritical country. I have found out the law is there to protect the abuser and punish the abused.
The Irish people themselves are too blame, we gave the church the power and treated people cruelly because of it. Hiding behind the church is not going to work today. "Give a man a mask and he will show you his true face" Oscar Wilde.
I've heard recently that Catherine corless wasn't telling the truth about tuam tonight on the Gemma o'doherty show on Getter
My husband is from Mexico he told me his mother use to send him to the church for service he would run and play he hates that church !! My hubby said the nuns would slap the Hell out of him. To this day he hates the Catholic church.
God bless that lady for investigating and exposing what seems to be an Irish version of the Nazi Holocaust, only this time the victims were innocent little Irish children. Most of the Nazi camp guards were caught and tried as war criminals. I wonder will similar justice be done for those hundreds of babies and infants who were neglected and some of whom were dumped in a septic tank.This is a shame and a stain on the nuns who were involved and the church in Ireland!
This makes me sick! Shame on the Catholic Church!
All Catholic church full op pedos
No shame on those who allowed this to happen the Church should not be the scapegoat
It didn't happen. The report has stated that .
People need to read Historian Brian Nugent's book on this issue. It's entitled Tuambabies: A Critical Look at The Tuam Children's Home Scandal.
And this headline from the 9th of March. " NO delgates showed up to open up a discussion.
Dáil debate on Tuam mass grave delayed due to near empty chamber
No TDs showed up? No one? Really.
There was no mass grave, babies not placed in sewage tank. complete fabrication for the benefit of the abortion campaigners.
@@freddyferret2313 wow! I'll check that out!
Shame on these evil people who posed as good people. People who you are supposed to look up to and trust!
Wolves in sheep's clothing
How was the decision to treat children like that made? Who made that decision? When was that decision made? The State, at some level, colluded for sure,
for the sake of convenience.
In the 1930's anywhere in the world, if a girl got pregnant, they had to be hidden away, I'm in the U.S., and my aunt was one of them, and then her baby was taken away.
That is Not Catholic teaching, full stop! Please see www.vaticancatholic.com also mostholyfamilymonastery.com for the true and honest teaching of the Traditional Catholic Church! God bless you! Pray for the truth which is beautiful!
Sensible comment at last, it was widespread, a lot to do with poverty but heh lets blame the nuns.
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Well then fight for birth control pills
@@freddyferret2313?? Stop making excuses the nuns were directly responsible and complicit in the abuse
796 Children! Criminal! Please post update. What is happening now? The news media most get involved.
That dreadful church taught pain and fear not love ! It's being exposed because we are entering a period of Love and all atrocities will come to the front! Naught but the truth prevail!
More fear and pain in other churches and schools, but you choose to ignore them cause your a bigot.
@@freddyferret2313 that’s one way to judge my point of view Freddy 😊
Thank you Catherine for bringing this to light for everyone to know what happened in Tuam.
I would not know anything about this if it was not for you. I was always
appalled about the Magdalen’s laundries but did not know anything about Tuam. God bless these 796 Babis and children . I hope that they eventually get a decent burial. Thank you from me.
My mother was in a convent in Manchester the convent of the good shepherds she said they were strict but never suffered any sexual abuse and some of the sisters were nice and some weren't I suppose she was lucky compared to what these poor women went through she was 12 went she went in in 1969 and 17 when she left all though she said her and the other girls had to work in the laundry but were also educated in the school and had Saturday afternoon off to go out and Sunday morning her friends were allowed out for a few hours after church so she had a lot more freedom then these poor women her father had to pay for her keep while she was there and was also well fed and went home for holidays and Christmas I can only assume that that home must have only been one of a few that treated there wards well I hope all these women get justice my mother is c of e and it was a Catholic services she had to attend to on Sundays but it never affected her in anyway she went on to have me and my two brothers also the reason she was there was she would not attend school when she was living at home with my lovely grandmother whom she doted on and my grandmother loved her very much as well they were like glue when she came home my mother and grandmother went everywhere together
What a truly horrifying thing to have happened those poor children and women lets hope ireland has learned something from this also Saffron Sugar in case you thought these comments were about english lessons they are not! When somebody finds they are losing an argument they turn into the grammer police, its sad as the original subject is forgotten!
Catherine Murphy IMHO .. I think you are confusing
The Irish and the Catholic Church! The Irish people have a great faith in God !
Not Money!
Patsy Coyle no longer....
It is now time that Ireland should become a secular state. Having the government screw you over is bad enough but the government and church combined, well that is just too much.
Excellent research now whats next for the people who were n charge?thank u for your hard work
So terribly, terribly sad
cruel cruel world we live in.....
This brave woman persisted, Thank You. Eight Hundred Babies, the Catholic nuns starved 800 babies and buried them in the septic system and, of course, the boys involved were never even corrected. I saw that in Irish culture. The man was PROUD if, when his girlfriend got pregnant, he didn't "abandon" her! Bragging proud.
What a horrific warped way for a country to evolve with the complicity of the church - hard to believe so-called religion contributed to such barbaric treatment of girls, young women and their babies. Well done Catherin Corless for your hard work and determination to uncover the truth.
This is one of the major reasons why I’m an atheist
Simply horrific the evil of the church
But I cant understand why it was only the women and children had to be punished because there had to be a man involved .
Always is. A few of them are here posting denials.
It would be interesting to know the kinds of women who became nuns in Ireland. What was their motivation? Did these women have a real vocation or did they just want to get away from the work, drudgery and the incessant child bearing of marriage, in a world where contraception is forbidden by religion?..........Some of these older Irish families were huge, 8,9,10 children and more.........Sometimes the convent was the only way out, whether they were suited to it or not.
church is finished
No God will never disappear sorry to disappoint you peace❤🙏✝️🙏
It's now come out that some of the items mentioned did not happen .
Former residents say things were not like they were made out to be.
UGH! I love this woman.
God bless you Catherine
right so according to the Irish times the babies where there and died due to medical conditions but according to the article it says that one Barry Sweeney said there where only 20 skeletons in there but that was 14 years after the home had been abandoned ..but if there is only 20 skeletons where are the rest of them if not buried in that hole?
The truth will prevail papers don't refuse to ink the media to have put there own stories too it
God bless this woman
Will he sure didn't bless the babies....
Catherine she recive a Nobel prize for her work.
For what, lying.
@@freddyferret2313did those babies jump into the pits by themselves...?
@@captur69 There where no pits.
@@freddyferret2313 septic tanks...you're right...not pits there's a huge difference......ffs
@@captur69 Wrong again, bigot.
These homes sure kept everything secret. Because they knew what they were doing.
Thought I'd share a poem I think best encapsulates the horror of what happened, with a call for humanity:
At Tuam
"Among the hundreds of children who stare up at us from their septic tank
is James Muldoon, who died in 1927
at the age of four months. At least he would never be forced to thank
the Lord for mercies large or small. That cry to high heaven
must come from Brendan Muldoon, who died in 1943
at a mere five weeks. A teenage nun bows before an unleavened
host held up by a priest like a moon held up by an ash tree.
In 1947 the eleven month old Bridget Muldoon, a namesake of the mother
who would shortly give birth to me,
has already distinguished herself as being a bit of a bother
while Dermott Muldoon, three months old in 1950, is about to join the ranks
of my foster-sisters and foster-brothers
in that unthinkable world where a wasp may recognize another wasp’s face
and an elephant grieve for an elephant down at the watering place.
"
Paul Muldoon
Wondering if my birth mother was in the laundry how can I get that information ???
To blame u married women for lose morals by shaming then when they got pregnant is wrong. Where is the responsibility of the men who impregnate these women. Since most of these pregnancies were rape/ incest related and some of our if love outside the bond of marriage the responsibility should be on both parties. The Irish Government should have had sex education in order to prevent unplanned pregnancy.
espero que con la investigacion que se esta haciendo gracas a esta señora muchos puedan encontrar a sus hermanos y familiares, niños que fueron enviados a los Estados Unidos y la investigacion siga hasta alla por medio de fundaciones e instituciones que se sumen a la busqueda y aunque ya de edad puedan abrazar a sus hermanos.
TRUTH ALWAYS PREVAILS
thank you for understanding
A little knowledge is a dangerous (and expensive) thing!
we can all rejoice: the second they took their last breath, those babies went straight to their Lord Jesus' waiting arms and His loving smile. Their pain and suffering are over. Stones and plaques are nice, beautiful but they're for us living--not for the little children who are joyful in their heavenly home. we can just say: those memorials are a celebration for us here, showing respect at last for little lives lived and cut short in disrespect. They were innocents; they are martyrs.
Highly suspicious over 22 children a year? Sounds like something else could have been going on.
Just an amazing woman, love you
May the soul of every baby and child who died be at Peace in the Merciful Blue Light of Mother Mary and the smiling Light of God the Creator. Return to the Source of Happiness. 👼. Including my own sister, Dolores.
Government investigation over shows
Burials in Tuam Mother and Baby home were handled , not by the nuns, but by Galway Council who supplied two workers to handle this (always had a problem imagining nuns digging large crypts!)
There were SEVEN septic tanks around the home, so no matter where you buried anyone it was going to be near a septic tank.
800 death certificates. No need to say more.
Dear God. Please bless all the children . I hope that they all go to heaven.
Dear God I hope that the women are all happy and have good life...
nothing written because it was covered up. sick
you cannot be such an apologist.....educate YOURSELF right!!
Catherine Murphy apologist!
Catherine Murphy, it certainly can! As followers of Jesus, we are called to love one another and to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This applied then, applies now and will apply forever. Now I agree that everyone in that society shared the guilt of what happened, but the nuns definitely could AND SHOULD have been loving to those children. I don't believe that anyone would have critized them for that, and if they did, so what, they would've had the best compliment from the Father of all!
Keith Ode what are you defending these religious orders or not, we can't read you're mind what or who are u getting at...? #leftconfused
+Cathine Murphy just like the Catholic Church was there to make money from its gullible flock..
Some of the community, ie practising Catholics
also are failing to acknowledge the dispicable behaviour
of so-called Christians. Attitudes can be almost dismissive with a tendency to minimise
the crimes. Maybe the 3rd secret of Fatima is
being revealed and the end of Catholicism is nigh.
She says, half-way through, that these children were buried without a thought. How does she know that? What does she think 'went on behind the walls'? Why does she say it is a septic tank when the recent official mentions two structures, one a septic tank filled with rubble and another structure, which might have been connected with the sewerage system, where the remains were found? Why all the outrage?
Journalists and academics should not be honoured for going along with a witch hunt. Indeed, they should be grateful they are allowed to keep their jobs. How many here make a genuine effort to be sceptical and objective?
Why would any human being be looked upon differently by any other human being? Nun or not? You are not telling me nuns never have sex or have had babies themselves and to view illegitimate babies differently? is just wrong. That to me is not a religion of love from God.
There is a Righteous Judge and He knows the answers ...
There is a Day of Judgment and all will stand before Him ...
and there will be Righteous Justice for ALL His Little ones.
The penalty will be severe for those who claimed to work in His service and mistreated any of His children no matter what their ages.
I believe they will live again in a better world when He will watch over them Himself.
BULLSHIT! That's the attitude that gets people murdered. Shove it!
To be fair to those nuns, they were severely under-staffed and under-funded, so of course the children would be neglected no mater what they did. I think the problem lied in the belief system that the church perpetrated; that children born out of wedlock didn't have the same worth as others born from married mothers. I have no use for the Catholic church.
This comment is 2 years after the original, but there is absolutely no excuse for these nuns. Being understaffed would certainly make things more difficult, however, if an average person were somehow forced into the same position, I feel that they would work until they dropped from exhaustion to do the best they could- hugging, loving the children, bathing and feeding the best they could. Demanding money from the “church” for food (the catholic church has a vast fortune, certainly enough to feed children in a mother-baby home). Nuns *should* be head and shoulders above the average person. Unfortunately, too many are in the church for the wrong reason. My heart breaks for these pregnant women, babies and children 😢
You are absolutely right, it is the belief system.
listening to people it had relaxed considerably by the 1970's
Brilliant !!!
What has happened to my post. Is it not sufficiently PC?
Bless you
They're found rip
Those children where sacrificed to a demon in that land. 800 children is only the work of rituals and those who conduct them.
Praise freedom of speech. This is such a horror story all in the name of God. Shame, shame on them.
Were there insurance policies taken out on these children by the Catholic Church? Did the church profit from their deaths?
Who funded the convents for the care and upkeep of the children whose families did not want them? Who supplied food and clothing etc.? Girls became nuns and gave themselves to do voluntary work such as in those homes. Sounds like some of those little children were rejected by their families because they were disabled or epileptic.....what is the whole story?
The angels garden is at the back of the old hospital
“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them." - Matthew 7:15-20
Quoting the book that promoted the behaviour of the cult? Spitting in the faces of the cult's victims wouldn't be any less disrespectful.
We certainly hear you loud and clear but we can hardly hear the interviewed could you try to learn something about Sound before making video