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Potemkin Village: Neo-liberalism and Peace-building in Northern
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Ethnopolitics
Formerly Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Volume 8 Issue 2 2009
ISSN: 1744-9065 (electronic) 1744-9057 (paper)

Subjects: Civil Wars & Ethnic Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Ethnicity;
Nationalism;
Publisher: Routledge

Potemkin Village: Neo-liberalism and Peace-building in Northern Ireland?
Author: John Nagle a

Affiliation: a INCORE, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland

Abstract
This paper examines whether neo-liberalism is becoming hegemonic in Northern
Ireland. It analyses the regional government's nascent commitment to
free-market solutions (public-private partnerships and neo-urbanism) to
ameliorate decades of social inequality and civil conflict and to contribute
towards social reconstruction. Noting the hybrid and contradictory aspects
of neo-liberalism, it is argued that rather than being evidence of a
complete 'roll out' of neo-liberalism in Northern Ireland, it rests uneasily
with an economy fettered by its reliance on the public sector as well as
forms of segregation that duplicate public services. Although some
commentators argue that neo-liberalism is rupturing the hitherto tight link
between the nation-state and citizenship to weaken the basis upon which
national identities rest, the paper notes the discrepant ethnonational views
of neo-liberalism as well as conflicts over urban regeneration. The paper
also investigates whether processes of urban regeneration act as a 'mask' to
cover the intensification of poverty, segregation and exclusion that affect
working-class urban districts.

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Forwarded on behalf of
Mike Collins=20
Publications Director=20
Cork University Press/Attic Press=20

Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives published by Cork University
Press
=A0
Edited by Susan Osborn
=A0
Recently, Elizabeth Bowen has been recognised as being as radically
important to our understanding of twentieth-century literature as Samuel
Beckett and she is now considered among the most highly significant =
writers
of the twentieth century. This is the first critical collection of =
essays
devoted solely to Bowen=92s work and it is intended to broaden the =
critical
framework of Bowen scholarship and to extend Bowen criticism by more =
clearly
mapping her works=92 position in relation to contemporary critical =
concerns
and its location in relation to twentieth-century literature generally.=20
=A0
1. Unstable compounds: Bowen=B9s Beckettian affinities - Sin=E9ad Mooney
2. How to measure this unaccountable darkness between the trees: the =
strange
relation of style and meaning in The Last September - Susan Osborn=20
3. Dead letters and living things: historical ethics in The House in
Parisand The Death of the Heart - Eluned Summers-Bremner=20
4. Mumbo-jumbo: the haunted world of The Little Girls - June Sturrock=20
5. She-ward bound: Elizabeth Bowen as a sensationalist writer - Shannon
Wells-Lassagne=20
6. Territory, space, modernity: Elizabeth Bowen=B9s The Demon Lover and =
Other
Stories and wartime London - Shafquat Towheed=20
7. Narrative, meaning and agency in The Heat of the Day - Brook Miller, =
with
Luke Elward, TessaHempel and Philip Kollar =A0
=A0
Susan Osborn is a critic, novelist, and poet who lectures in the =
Department
of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
=A0
Further information about the book is available on
www.corkuniversitypress.com
=A0

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Publications Director=20
Cork University Press/Attic Press=20
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communities making evident the University=92s commitment to the broad
dissemination of knowledge and ideas.
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Celtic FC Honours National Famine Memorial Day

Celtic Football Club today announced that it is to mark National Famine Mem=
orial Day on 17th May 2009. The day has been earmarked by the Irish Govern=
ment to commemorate and honour the 1.5 million people, who either perished =
or emigrated from Ireland during the Great Irish Famine from 1845 -1851.
As a mark of respect, the Celtic team on Sunday will wear the Club=92s Celt=
ic Cross on their shirts when the team plays against Hibernian FC on Sunday.
The Cross, representing a bridge between Scottish and Irish cultures, is th=
e symbol of the Club=92s charitable arm, established to continue the charit=
able work initiated by the Club=92s great founder Brother Walfrid, an Irish=
Marist Brother.

Celtic Chairman John Reid commented:

=93Given Celtic=92s proud Irish heritage, this Club is inextricably linked =
to the Great Famine and the subsequent immigration from Ireland.
=93Celtic Football Club therefore is proud to be marking National Famine M=
emorial Day in this manner as we pay our respects to all those affected by =
the Great Hunger, one of the most tragic chapters in modern world history. =
The Irish Famine resulted in death, disease and displacement of people on a=
n unimaginable scale with the West of Scotland becoming a principal point o=
f refuge=94.

=93The Famine is a lesson from history which should never be forgotten but =
from the despair and death of famine arose new hope, new life and a new fut=
ure, part of that came in the in the shape of Celtic Football Club.

=93The desperate people who fled Ireland and their offspring born in Scotla=
nd, became the collective parents of Celtic Football Club. The Club=92s ma=
in inspiration Brother Walfrid and Michael Davitt, the club=92s first patro=
n, were both young children during the Famine in Ireland=94.

=93Celtic is a Scottish Club with proud Irish roots, an organisation which =
represents a fusion of cultures between both countries. We are a Club open =
to all and while we celebrate our traditions, it is important that we also =
celebrate our diversity.=94

=93During the past 120 years Celtic has developed into a world class footba=
ll organisation which strives for excellence and success on and off the fie=
ld. However, while we always aim to build and grow, there will be one const=
ant - we will always remain much more than a football club and we will alwa=
ys remember our proud heritage.=94

--=20
Academic Excellence at the Heart of Scotland.
The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland,=20
number SC 011159.

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Subject: Visiting professorship: gender and mobilities/migration,
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The Faculty of humanities and social sciences at the University of =20
Neuch=C3=A2tel is offering a

Visiting professorship in gender studies with a focus on migration =20
and/or mobility studies

Eligible candidates must have an outstanding international reputation =20
in this field of specialization. The position runs for three months =20
(beginning September 15, 2010, or to be negotiated) and is located at =20
the MAPS (Maison d=E2=80=99analyse des processus sociaux or Center for =
the =20
Understanding of Social Processes, www.unine.ch/maps).

The visiting professor will be responsible for teaching approximately =20
72 hours in English (and French, if fluent) at the MAPS as well as =20
within the universities composing the Swiss national gender studies =20
network (Network Gender Studies CH).

For details, please consult our website (http://www2.unine.ch/lettres/=20
page2849.html) or send an e-mail to Prof. Janine Dahinden =20
(janine.dahinden[at]unine.ch).

Candidates - professors or persons holding a equivalent academic =20
position outside of Switzerland - with a disciplinary background in =20
the social sciences, specialized in gender aspects of migration/ =20
mobility and experienced in working in interdisciplinary contexts are =20
asked to send applications via e-mail to professor Janine Dahinden, =20
Maison d=E2=80=99analyse des processus sociaux (MAPS), =20
janine.dahinden[at]unine.ch. The deadline for application is August 31, =20
2009.

The University of Neuch=C3=A2tel is an equal opportunity employer.

NETWORK GENDER STUDIES CH
Maison d=E2=80=99analyse des processus sociaux
Facult=C3=A9 des lettres et sciences humaines
Faubourg de l=E2=80=99H=C3=B4pital 27
CH-2001 Neuch=C3=A2tel 1
T=C3=A9l : +41 32 718 39 34 ?? Fax : +41 32 718 12 31 ?? E-mail : =20
janine.dahinden[at]unine.ch ?? www.unine.ch/maps


Visiting professorship
Visiting professor in gender studies with a strong interest in =20
migration and/or mobility studies

Context
This position has been made available by the Swiss Gender Studies =20
Network and funded by the Swiss University
Conference. We are interested in outstanding researchers of =20
international reputation with a specialization
in the field of gender studies who are interested in spending three =20
months in Switzerland in a dynamic
academic environment. During his/her visit, the professor will be =20
affiliated with the Center for the Understanding
of Social Processes at the University of Neuch=C3=A2tel and integrated =20
into the Network of Swiss Universities
composing the Network Gender Studies CH. The visiting professor will =20
be responsible for teaching approximately
72 hours in English (and French, if fluent) at Neuch=C3=A2tel as well as =
=20
within the network of partner universities
of the Gender Studies Network.
Thematic orientation
We seek social scientists with a strong interest in gender issues, =20
currently working in one of the following
fields:
=E2=80=A2 forced migration (with regard to identity construction, or =20
migration and protective regimes in the South
and in the North);
=E2=80=A2 mobility of highly skilled workers;
=E2=80=A2 new forms of circulation and mobility triggered by =
globalization, =20
transnationalization and economic restructuration
(i.e. domestic workers, sex work, women entrepreneurs);
=E2=80=A2 articulations of mobility with social categories such as =
ethnicity =20
or social position, and in general questions
of intersectionality;
=E2=80=A2 citizenship and political rights;
=E2=80=A2 changing structures of national and international labor =
markets, =20
including issues of discrimination;
=E2=80=A2 migrant social integration and questions of diversity;
=E2=80=A2 other aspects of migration and mobility.
Institutional affiliation
The visiting professor will be located at the Maison d=E2=80=99analyse =
des =20
processus sociaux (MAPS - Center for the
Understanding of social processes =E2=80=93 www.unine.ch/maps) in the =20
Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty
(www.unine.ch/lettres) of the University of Neuch=C3=A2tel.
Qualifications
Eligible candidates - professors or persons holding an equivalent =20
academic position outside of Switzerland =E2=80=93
are expected to have attested teaching and research experience and =20
high quality publications in the field of
specialization. An institutional affiliation to a university outside =20
of Switzerland is required.
Applicants should be trained in one of the following disciplines: =20
education sciences, ethnic or migration studies,
gender studies, geography, psychology, political science, social-=20
cultural anthropology or sociology. Fur-
2 -
thermore, we seek applicants with experience working in an =20
interdisciplinary perspective and/or within an interdisciplinary
research team.
Activities
The 72 hours of teaching activities within the Network Gender Studies =20
CH will include:
=E2=80=A2 a lecture and seminar at the MAPS (once, in modular form). =
This =20
course is open to all students in
gender studies in Switzerland.
=E2=80=A2 half-day lectures or seminars in each of the partner =
universities =20
(Zurich, Bern, Basel, Fribourg,
Lausanne, Geneva, St-Gallen).
=E2=80=A2 a workshop (2-3 days) with PhD students, post-docs and other =20
researchers in the Network Gender
Studies CH.
=E2=80=A2 occasional talks or colloquia (to be negotiated).
The lecture and seminar at the MAPS can be given in French or =20
English, while teaching at the national level
must also include English.
Beginning date
September 15, 2010, for three months (to be negotiated).
Application
Applicants should submit the following documents:
- a Curriculum Vita, copy of all higher-level diplomas, publications =20
list;
- a teaching proposal;
- three publications relevant to the field of specialization.
-
Deadline for all application material is August 31, 2009
Decision: October 2009
Conditions
The visiting professor will receive 40'000 CHF (=E2=82=AC26'000) which =20
covers the following expenses: a monthly honorarium
(9'000 CHF monthly, including social security but not health =20
insurance); a ticket for all public transport systems
within Switzerland (first class); an apartment in Neuch=C3=A2tel and =20
travel expenses between Switzerland and the
country of origin.
The University of Neuch=C3=A2tel will also provide infrastructural needs =
=20
(office, computer), some secretarial time (10%)
as well as a student assistant (5 hours per week for a maximum of 12 =20
weeks).
Address for application
Please send your application via e-mail to: Prof. Janine =
Dahinden=E2=80=93 =20
(janine.dahinden[at]unine.ch).
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Subject: TOC Irish Political Studies, Volume 24 Issue 2 2009
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The latest issue of Irish Political Studies is the political summary issue
for the year 2008, with lists of persons and activities in the two
jurisdictions. I have pasted in below, under the bald titles, a list of
headings.

P.O'S.

Irish Political Studies, Volume 24 Issue 2 2009
Official journal of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI)
ISSN: 1743-9078 (electronic) 0790-7184 (paper)

Subjects: European Politics; Irish Politics;
Publisher: Routledge

Data Sections

Republic of Ireland 2008
137 - 187
DOI: 10.1080/07907180902823870

1 Government Ministers, Ministers of State and Opposition Spokespersons
(December 2008)
2 State of the Parties (31 December 2008)
3 Oireachtas Joint Committees (December 2008)
4 Bills Enacted by the Oireachtas 2008
5 Main Political Events of 2008
6 Expenditure Returns for 2007 (as Published in 2008)
7 Referendum Results
8 Opinion Polls
List of Tables

Northern Ireland 2008
189 - 252
DOI: 10.1080/07907180902823896

1 Government Information and Public Committee Membership
2 State of the Parties
3 Northern Ireland Members of Parliament
4 Election Results
5 Legislation
6 Main Political Events of 2008
7 Opinion Polls (Northern Ireland Life and Times; Survey Conducted 2007;
Released 2008)
8 Security Data
9 Implementation of the Belfast Agreement
List of Tables

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Subject: TOC Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer 2009 (28:4),
"The Irish in America and the World"
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Forwarded on behalf of
John J. Bukowczyk bukowczyk [at] sbcglobal.net

I'd like to announce the publication of the Summer 2009 (28:4)
special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History on the theme
"The Irish in America and the World."

Table of contents:

Damien Murray, "'Go forth as a missionary to fight it': Catholic
Anti-Socialism and Irish-American Nationalism in Post-World War One Boston"

Paricia Kelleher, "Young Men on the Make: Class and Catholic-Irish
Masculinity in Antebellum America"

Forum on New Directions in Irish Immigration and Ethnic History, with
essays by David Brundage, Marion Casey, William Jenkins, Kevin Kenny,
Timothy Meagher, Deirdre Moloney, and Janet Nolan.

Individual copies of the issue ($20, individuals) can be obtained by
calling the University of Illinois Press at 866-244-0626.

The JAEH is sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic history
Society. For membership/subscriptions (($35, new members; $25, students),
visit URL www. press. uillinois.edu/journals/jaeh.html

John J. Bukowczyk
Professor of History & Editor,
Journal of American Ethnic History
Department of History
3094 Faculty/Administration Bldg.
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202

Telephone:
(313) 577-2799 (Voice-mail)
(313) 577-2525 (Dept.)
Fax:
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E-mail:
aa2092 [at] wayne.edu

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Subject: Making a place for Oscar Wilde
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Chers amis,=20

The city of Paris is inaugurating from the beginning of June an event cal=
led
Paris en toutes lettres, de la litt=E9rature =E0 profusion which will ena=
ble us
to ensure that a street or square is named after Oscar Wilde (there is
already a rue George Bernard Shaw, whose links with Paris are scanty inde=
ed)
=20
=20
=20
'The streets of Paris: nominate the auteur absent. Numerous streets or
squares carry the names of writers. For all that, some major authors have
been unjustly forgotten. Nominate a French and an European writer who die=
d
more than five years ago ... The Paris Council will decide the results.'
=20
It's now or never !=20
=20
So to your keyboards (and spread the word): from 18th May you can vote fo=
r
Oscar on www.paris.fr (see the heading : 'Paris en toutes lettres', then=20
Proposez le nom d'un =E9crivain'), or directly=20
=20
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal
lut?page_id=3D9134&document_type_id=3D12&document_id=3D68725&portlet_id=3D=
22208 !!!=20
=20
It is a wonderful opportunity to pay tribute to the man and the writer,
buried in P=E8re Lachaise 19th July 1909.=20
=20
Avec nos remerciements.=20
=20
Danielle Gu=E9rin et David Rose=20
Soci=E9t=E9 Oscar Wilde en France

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This book is turning up in our alerts, and has been reviewed in a number =
of places...

An earlier volume by the same author is

Stealing sunlight
growing up in Irishtown
by Angeline Kearns Blain
Published in 2000, A. & A. Farmar (Dublin)

Publisher web site
http://www.aafarmar.ie/index.asp

Reviews of Angeline Kearns Blain, I Used To Be Irish...

1.
Streetwise Dublin woman breathes new life into the emigrant's well-worn =
tale

MARY BURKE reviews I Used To Be Irish By Angeline Kearns Blain AA Farmar =
277pp, =E2=82=AC14.99

IN 1957, a penniless 18-year-old Irishtown woman with the quintessential =
Dublin name of Angeline Kearns flew to America to marry a GI she had =
first encountered at a city bus-stop.

Initially happy to escape a class-conscious and priest-ridden Ireland =
that would deny an underclass girl any opportunities, Kearns =
Blain=E2=80=99s memoir, I Used To Be Irish , opens by detailing how =
after she settles in sober New England she begins to miss the =
rambunctious life of the tenements.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0501/1224245747815.html?=
via=3Dmr

2.
A very different american dream
I used to be Irish By Angeline Kearns Blain (A&A Farmar, =E2=82=AC14.99)

By MAJELLA O'SULLIVAN=20

Saturday May 02 2009

Growing up in the flats in 1950s Ringsend, there weren't many oppo- =
rtunities for working class people, especially young women. At 18, =
Angeline Kearns Blain had her own game plan. Having come to the bitter =
realisation that "de Valera's Ireland" had nothing to offer, she =
resolved to make the most of her best asset, her stunning good looks. =
She was going to bag herself an American GI and go to the US in the hope =
of a better life.

I used to be Irish is a memoir of one of the thousands of Irish women =
who emigrated to the US in the 20th century.

Angeline Kearns left school at the age of 13 and worked on the Irishtown =
dump collecting slivers of coke to sell for a shilling a gunnysack.

FULL TEXT AT
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/a-very-different-american-d=
ream-1726734.html

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The report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse will be published
in Ireland today, and already the report has attracted comment.

I have pasted in below an item from the Telegraph, which gives a Timeline of
developments leading up to the Report.

These things always have a diasporic dimension, of course - the Guardian
article (source below) says ' During the commission's investigations, oral
evidence was collected from more than 1,000 people, mainly in their 50s to
70s. Several hundred travelled back to Ireland from as far away as the US
and Australia to describe childhoods of terror and intimidation...'

I recall the flak when I published
Breaking the silence from a distance: Irish women speak on sexual abuse by
Ide B. O'Carroll.

P.O'S.


Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: timeline

As the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse reports, here are the key
events since allegations of child abuse in Ireland's state-run institutions
came to light.

1996: Dear Daughter, a documentary shown on state broadcaster RTE details
abuse suffered by Christine Buckley and others at St Vincent's Industrial
School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin.

April/May 1999: A second RTE documentary is broadcast, the six-part States
of Fear, details abuse suffered by children in care including industrial and
reformatory schools, orphanages, institutions for the physically and
intellectually disabled. It was supported by the book Suffer Little
Children.

May 1999: Ms Justice Mary Laffoy is appointed to head the Commission to
Inquire into Child Abuse and one year later legislation is passed to put it
on a statutory footing.
October 2000: The Government announces plans for a compensation scheme. The
Residential Institutions Redress Board is eventually established in December
2002.

July 2001: The deadline for complaints of abuse to be made to the
Commission. Some 3,149 people ask to testify.

December 2003: Justice Mary Laffoy resigns as chairwoman of the Commission
amid claims of a lack of government co-operation. Sean Ryan SC is appointed
a High Court judge and the new chairman.

June 2004: Judge Ryan announces the Commission will not name abusers unless
they have been convicted.

June 2004: The Christian Brothers religious order drops legal actions
against the Commission.

July 2004: The Christian Brothers testify at a public hearing that files
only recently discovered in its Rome-based archive show evidence of 30
canonical trials of brothers based on proven incidents of child sexual abuse
against boys in their care from the 1930s onwards.

2005/2006: Private hearings continue and a number of religious orders come
forward with testimony in public.

May 2009: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report published.

SOURCE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/5353785/Commission-
to-Inquire-into-Child-Abuse-timeline.html

See also for example...

Commission to publish report on institutional abuse
STEVEN CARROLL
A report into the abuse suffered by thousands of children in state-run
institutions across the country will be published this afternoon in the
largest investigation of religious orders to date.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0520/breaking5.htm

Report on claims of child abuse in Irish Catholic schools to be published
Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse expected to confirm victims' claims
of serial abuse in Catholic-run orphanages and industrial schools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child-abu
se-claims

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Heather Ingman=20
A History of the Irish Short Story
Hardback=A0 (ISBN-13: 9780521867245)
Published May 2009
Cambridge University Press

=A350.00

Though the short story is often regarded as central to the Irish canon, =
this
is the first comprehensive study of the genre for many years. Heather =
Ingman
traces the development of the modern short story in Ireland from its
beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day. Her study =
analyses
the material circumstances surrounding publication, examining the role =
of
magazines and editors in shaping the form. Ingman incorporates the most
recent critical thinking on the short story, traces international
connections, and gives a central part to Irish women=92s short stories. =
Each
chapter concludes with a detailed analysis of key stories from the =
period
discussed, featuring Joyce, Edna O=92Brien and John McGahern, among =
others.
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It is interesting that my wife and I noticed that a hospital for the
(then called) mentally handicapped was on a list to be investigated and
which we both had worked in. I published a book some years ago aimed
primarily at mental health nurses and which contained a chapter 'see no
evil, hear no evil' in which I pointed to physical (not sexual) abuses
perpetrated by many but by a religious brother (whom I named) who was
especially cruel. Nothing came of this perhaps understandably given the
audience for my book.=20

I will be looking to get a copy of the Report: does anyone know will it
be going on line?


Liam Clarke
University of Brighton =20

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:06 AM
To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [IR-D] Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse

The report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse will be
published
in Ireland today, and already the report has attracted comment.

I have pasted in below an item from the Telegraph, which gives a
Timeline of
developments leading up to the Report.

These things always have a diasporic dimension, of course - the Guardian
article (source below) says ' During the commission's investigations,
oral
evidence was collected from more than 1,000 people, mainly in their 50s
to
70s. Several hundred travelled back to Ireland from as far away as the
US
and Australia to describe childhoods of terror and intimidation...'

I recall the flak when I published
Breaking the silence from a distance: Irish women speak on sexual abuse
by=20
Ide B. O'Carroll.

P.O'S.


Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: timeline

As the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse reports, here are the key
events since allegations of child abuse in Ireland's state-run
institutions
came to light.

1996: Dear Daughter, a documentary shown on state broadcaster RTE
details
abuse suffered by Christine Buckley and others at St Vincent's
Industrial
School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin.

April/May 1999: A second RTE documentary is broadcast, the six-part
States
of Fear, details abuse suffered by children in care including industrial
and
reformatory schools, orphanages, institutions for the physically and
intellectually disabled. It was supported by the book Suffer Little
Children.
=20
May 1999: Ms Justice Mary Laffoy is appointed to head the Commission to
Inquire into Child Abuse and one year later legislation is passed to put
it
on a statutory footing.
October 2000: The Government announces plans for a compensation scheme.
The
Residential Institutions Redress Board is eventually established in
December
2002.

July 2001: The deadline for complaints of abuse to be made to the
Commission. Some 3,149 people ask to testify.

December 2003: Justice Mary Laffoy resigns as chairwoman of the
Commission
amid claims of a lack of government co-operation. Sean Ryan SC is
appointed
a High Court judge and the new chairman.

June 2004: Judge Ryan announces the Commission will not name abusers
unless
they have been convicted.

June 2004: The Christian Brothers religious order drops legal actions
against the Commission.

July 2004: The Christian Brothers testify at a public hearing that files
only recently discovered in its Rome-based archive show evidence of 30
canonical trials of brothers based on proven incidents of child sexual
abuse
against boys in their care from the 1930s onwards.

2005/2006: Private hearings continue and a number of religious orders
come
forward with testimony in public.

May 2009: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report published.

SOURCE
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/5353785/Commiss
ion-
to-Inquire-into-Child-Abuse-timeline.html

See also for example...

Commission to publish report on institutional abuse
STEVEN CARROLL
A report into the abuse suffered by thousands of children in state-run
institutions across the country will be published this afternoon in the
largest investigation of religious orders to date.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0520/breaking5.htm

Report on claims of child abuse in Irish Catholic schools to be
published
Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse expected to confirm victims'
claims
of serial abuse in Catholic-run orphanages and industrial schools

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child
-abu
se-claims

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I have pasted in below the brief information from the Commission's web site,
and the web link...

I would expect that web site to be very busy this afternoon.

P.O'S.

20th May 2009
Commission Report
There will be limited copies of the Commission's Report, in both hard and
soft copy, available from the Ballroom on the ground floor of the Conrad
Hotel, on Earlsfort Terrace, from 3 - 4pm on Wednesday 20th May.

As there is a limited number of Reports available, they will be given out on
a first come first served basis. Charges may apply.

Otherwise, to request a copy of the Commission's Report, please click here:
Email link to request the Report

16th May 2009

The Commission's Report will be published at 2.30pm on Wednesday, 20th May,
2009. The Report and Executive Summary will be posted to our website at that
time. The Report, in hard copy, will consist of 5 volumes and will also be
available on a single disk. Any further updates will be posted to our
website.

http://www.childabusecommission.ie/

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Building the Peace Dividend in Northern Ireland: People's
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Building the Peace Dividend in Northern Ireland: People's Perceptions of
Self and Country

Authors: Sean Byrne a; Katerina Standish a; Eyob Fissuh a; Jobb Arnold a;
Pauline Tennent a
Affiliation: a University of Manitoba,

Published in: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 15, Issue 2 April
2009 , pages 160 - 188
Subjects: Citizenship - Political Sociology; Nationalism; Race & Ethnic
Studies;

Abstract
The role of the International Fund for Ireland and the European Union Peace
II Fund is examined through the perspectives of a public opinion poll of
1,023 of Northern Ireland's citizens, and interviews with 98 community
groups, civil servants, and development officers. This article explains that
while some of the respondents are optimistic about their life changes others
are concerned that the conflict could reignite in the future. In particular,
the respondent's images indicate the importance of the self-society
relationship and the necessity of tailoring economic assistance to the
distinctive socioeconomic needs of the targeted communities, and how third
parties must include local perspectives in their efforts to build the peace.

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This comes as no surprise to me either Liam...

I was in a Christian Brothers boarding school, not far from Artane, between the ages of eleven and fifteen. Two of my half-sister's sons were in Fairyhouse in Clonmel from early childhood until their mid-teens. Many of the damaged men I met researching the history of the Irish in British construction were survivors of such institutions (one third of survivors emigrated to England on release). I left Ireland aged fifteen in 1961.

At the root of the depravity is the Irish Catholic obsession with repressing sexuality and the consequences that had for children conned into believing, at the impressionable age of twelve to fourteen or fifteen, that they had a religious vocation. In my institution beautiful young visiting priests and religious addressed us on the joys and rewards of the religious life and blank sheets of paper were distributed on which one had to state one'sw interest or toehrwise in talking further privately with these men about a possible vocation. It would break your heart to have to disappoint them...Luckily I myself held out.

In the novitiates the natural sexual urges of those who joined were exploited by their mentors, teaching them that sexual gratification WAS possible - but only in an atmosphere of secrecy, and at the expense of the powerless and vulnerable. Abuse begets abuse...

Post-Independence Ireland was a brutal, backward, and benighted society; intentionally inequitable, unjust, and rotten to the core. I advise anyone who imagines otherwise to read this report. Cead Mile Failte!

Ultan Cowley


----- "Liam Clarke" wrote:
> It is interesting that my wife and I noticed that a hospital for the
> (then called) mentally handicapped was on a list to be investigated
> and
> which we both had worked in. I published a book some years ago aimed
> primarily at mental health nurses and which contained a chapter 'see
> no
> evil, hear no evil' in which I pointed to physical (not sexual)
> abuses
> perpetrated by many but by a religious brother (whom I named) who was
> especially cruel. Nothing came of this perhaps understandably given
> the
> audience for my book.
>
> I will be looking to get a copy of the Report: does anyone know will
> it
> be going on line?
>
>
> Liam Clarke
> University of Brighton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:06 AM
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
>
> The report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse will be
> published
> in Ireland today, and already the report has attracted comment.
>
> I have pasted in below an item from the Telegraph, which gives a
> Timeline of
> developments leading up to the Report.
>
> These things always have a diasporic dimension, of course - the
> Guardian
> article (source below) says ' During the commission's investigations,
> oral
> evidence was collected from more than 1,000 people, mainly in their
> 50s
> to
> 70s. Several hundred travelled back to Ireland from as far away as
> the
> US
> and Australia to describe childhoods of terror and intimidation...'
>
> I recall the flak when I published
> Breaking the silence from a distance: Irish women speak on sexual
> abuse
> by
> Ide B. O'Carroll.
>
> P.O'S.
>
>
> Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: timeline
>
> As the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse reports, here are the
> key
> events since allegations of child abuse in Ireland's state-run
> institutions
> came to light.
>
> 1996: Dear Daughter, a documentary shown on state broadcaster RTE
> details
> abuse suffered by Christine Buckley and others at St Vincent's
> Industrial
> School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin.
>
> April/May 1999: A second RTE documentary is broadcast, the six-part
> States
> of Fear, details abuse suffered by children in care including
> industrial
> and
> reformatory schools, orphanages, institutions for the physically and
> intellectually disabled. It was supported by the book Suffer Little
> Children.
>
> May 1999: Ms Justice Mary Laffoy is appointed to head the Commission
> to
> Inquire into Child Abuse and one year later legislation is passed to
> put
> it
> on a statutory footing.
> October 2000: The Government announces plans for a compensation
> scheme.
> The
> Residential Institutions Redress Board is eventually established in
> December
> 2002.
>
> July 2001: The deadline for complaints of abuse to be made to the
> Commission. Some 3,149 people ask to testify.
>
> December 2003: Justice Mary Laffoy resigns as chairwoman of the
> Commission
> amid claims of a lack of government co-operation. Sean Ryan SC is
> appointed
> a High Court judge and the new chairman.
>
> June 2004: Judge Ryan announces the Commission will not name abusers
> unless
> they have been convicted.
>
> June 2004: The Christian Brothers religious order drops legal actions
> against the Commission.
>
> July 2004: The Christian Brothers testify at a public hearing that
> files
> only recently discovered in its Rome-based archive show evidence of
> 30
> canonical trials of brothers based on proven incidents of child
> sexual
> abuse
> against boys in their care from the 1930s onwards.
>
> 2005/2006: Private hearings continue and a number of religious orders
> come
> forward with testimony in public.
>
> May 2009: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report published.
>
> SOURCE
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ireland/5353785/Commiss
> ion-
> to-Inquire-into-Child-Abuse-timeline.html
>
> See also for example...
>
> Commission to publish report on institutional abuse
> STEVEN CARROLL
> A report into the abuse suffered by thousands of children in
> state-run
> institutions across the country will be published this afternoon in
> the
> largest investigation of religious orders to date.
>
> http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0520/breaking5.htm
>
> Report on claims of child abuse in Irish Catholic schools to be
> published
> Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse expected to confirm victims'
> claims
> of serial abuse in Catholic-run orphanages and industrial schools
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/20/irish-catholic-schools-child
> -abu
> se-claims

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So much could be said - I believe Newfoundland was the first place in North
America to hold such an inquiry, and court cases still drag on.

One thing seems clear, and that is - regardless of national or religious
culture
- that prison-like total institutions are terribly corruptible, and to put
children in them is just an awful idea. Also, Irishness would seem to be a
minor factor given the similar goings-on at both church and state level
throughout Catholic North America and, it would seem, in Latin America as
well.
Thus, it also seems clear that the model of sacralized celibacy and
authoritarianism just doesn't work either, not for anything to do with
children, and not in real terms. My impression is that many western priests
lead pretty active sex lives of one sort or another.

Peter Hart

Quoting Ultan Cowley :

> This comes as no surprise to me either Liam...
>
> I was in a Christian Brothers boarding school, not far from Artane,
between
> the ages of eleven and fifteen. Two of my half-sister's sons were in
> Fairyhouse in Clonmel from early childhood until their mid-teens. Many of
the
> damaged men I met researching the history of the Irish in British
> construction were survivors of such institutions (one third of survivors
> emigrated to England on release). I left Ireland aged fifteen in 1961.
>
> At the root of the depravity is the Irish Catholic obsession with
repressing
> sexuality and the consequences that had for children conned into
believing,
> at the impressionable age of twelve to fourteen or fifteen, that they had
a
> religious vocation. In my institution beautiful young visiting priests and
> religious addressed us on the joys and rewards of the religious life and
> blank sheets of paper were distributed on which one had to state one'sw
> interest or toehrwise in talking further privately with these men about a
> possible vocation. It would break your heart to have to disappoint
> them...Luckily I myself held out.
>
> In the novitiates the natural sexual urges of those who joined were
exploited
> by their mentors, teaching them that sexual gratification WAS possible -
but
> only in an atmosphere of secrecy, and at the expense of the powerless and
> vulnerable. Abuse begets abuse...
>
> Post-Independence Ireland was a brutal, backward, and benighted society;
> intentionally inequitable, unjust, and rotten to the core. I advise anyone
> who imagines otherwise to read this report. Cead Mile Failte!
>
> Ultan Cowley
>

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Peter

I strongly recommend reading at least the summaries available on line (cf. today's Irish Times).

'goings-on' is hardly an adequate term to describe what is detailed in this report, which spans the eight decades from the 1920's to the 1980's. Nor does the report confine itself to 'prison-like institutions'; day schools also fell within its remit.
Almost anyone who was a pupil in the 'normal' Irish school system in those years, if they were totally honest, would admit that physical abuse, if nothing else, was in some degree endemic throughout. The Dublin Diocesan Report on Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy is due for release shortly; it is being flagged as likely to be equally shocking. How much more evidence do we need?

A female magistrate in Britain spoke on RTE Radio's 'Joe Duffy' phone-in programme this afternoon who was a survivor of one of these institutions. An educated, articulate, well-spoken woman, she was even now incandescent with rage at the words of apologists for Church and State in this context. The entire population here are exercised by these revelations today; I take comfort in the fact that a significant number of those from middle class backgrounds, both commentators and members of the public alike who have spoken out are voicing honest outrage and disgust without themselves having any personal axe to grind. Too little, too late, but an improvement on the habitual indifference of the past.

Ultan






----- "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote:
> From: phart[at]mun.ca
> To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
> Subject: Re: [IR-D] Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
>
> So much could be said - I believe Newfoundland was the first place in
> North
> America to hold such an inquiry, and court cases still drag on.
>
> One thing seems clear, and that is - regardless of national or
> religious
> culture
> - that prison-like total institutions are terribly corruptible, and to
> put
> children in them is just an awful idea. Also, Irishness would seem to
> be a
> minor factor given the similar goings-on at both church and state
> level
> throughout Catholic North America and, it would seem, in Latin America
> as
> well.
> Thus, it also seems clear that the model of sacralized celibacy and
> authoritarianism just doesn't work either, not for anything to do
> with
> children, and not in real terms. My impression is that many western
> priests
> lead pretty active sex lives of one sort or another.
>
> Peter Hart
>
> Quoting Ultan Cowley :
>
> > This comes as no surprise to me either Liam...
> >
> > I was in a Christian Brothers boarding school, not far from Artane,
> between
> > the ages of eleven and fifteen. Two of my half-sister's sons were
> in
> > Fairyhouse in Clonmel from early childhood until their mid-teens.
> Many of
> the
> > damaged men I met researching the history of the Irish in British
> > construction were survivors of such institutions (one third of
> survivors
> > emigrated to England on release). I left Ireland aged fifteen in
> 1961.
> >
> > At the root of the depravity is the Irish Catholic obsession with
> repressing
> > sexuality and the consequences that had for children conned into
> believing,
> > at the impressionable age of twelve to fourteen or fifteen, that
> they had
> a
> > religious vocation. In my institution beautiful young visiting
> priests and
> > religious addressed us on the joys and rewards of the religious life
> and
> > blank sheets of paper were distributed on which one had to state
> one'sw
> > interest or toehrwise in talking further privately with these men
> about a
> > possible vocation. It would break your heart to have to disappoint
> > them...Luckily I myself held out.
> >
> > In the novitiates the natural sexual urges of those who joined were
> exploited
> > by their mentors, teaching them that sexual gratification WAS
> possible -
> but
> > only in an atmosphere of secrecy, and at the expense of the
> powerless and
> > vulnerable. Abuse begets abuse...
> >
> > Post-Independence Ireland was a brutal, backward, and benighted
> society;
> > intentionally inequitable, unjust, and rotten to the core. I advise
> anyone
> > who imagines otherwise to read this report. Cead Mile Failte!
> >
> > Ultan Cowley
> >

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Hi Ultan:

I'm sure we are in pretty much total agreement on what you say and I didn't mean
to downplay anything. But one need only look at a site like

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/

to see how universal the same problems were/are within the church.

It seems to me matters were worst with particular parish priests, especially in
small communities where they had great power, and in orphanages and other total
institutions were they had no oversight. Such was the pattern here anyway.
Also, women religious didn't cause nearly the same harm - it was
overwhelmingly
priests and brothers.

Historians of modern Ireland, it seems to me, have yet to really come to grips
with the power and influence of the church, whether for good or ill. Not that
it should be exaggerated but few have ever really followed up on Emmet Larkin's
early articles on the economic role of the church etc - including Larkin
himself. If I recall correctly, the New History of Ireland volumes have
chapters on language, music, literature etc. etc. but not on religion or
churches - a very revealing absence. Information such as has been collected in
these reports should properly have a major impact on how we see the past.

As for consequences, I haven't really followed the legal ins and outs, but my
impression is that the church in Ireland has been insulated in some way. In
Canada, the Christian Brothers have been essentially bankrupted and destroyed I
think, and in the US I think dioceses have paid out billions. The financial
threat forces the church into ludicrous positions - I think here they claimed
there was no such thing as the Catholic Church, legally speaking! Here is a
key difference with Ireland perhaps - the state is still protecting the
church?

The great problem with a financial assault on the church is that it also
punishes ordinary parishoners, who have after all provided most of the money
the church is spending on its own defence, and end up losing church halls and
the like.

The church here is a shadow of its former self - it has lost most of its
property, many parishoners, and its place in the school system as the state has
taken over entirely. The latter result could only have happened with the total
loss of credibility after the scandal broke. If I recall correctly, the premier
who carried out the schools reform - Brian Tobin - described in his memoir going
to church and meeting the former bishop disgraced over his handling of the
scandal. Both he and his wife refused to shake his hand. Telling such a story
would be utterly unthinkable a decade or so earlier: the equivalent of Bertie
Ahern boasting of shunning his bishop.

Peter





Quoting Ultan Cowley :

> Peter
>
> I strongly recommend reading at least the summaries available on line (cf.
> today's Irish Times).
>
> 'goings-on' is hardly an adequate term to describe what is detailed in this
> report, which spans the eight decades from the 1920's to the 1980's. Nor does
> the report confine itself to 'prison-like institutions'; day schools also
> fell within its remit.
> Almost anyone who was a pupil in the 'normal' Irish school system in those
> years, if they were totally honest, would admit that physical abuse, if
> nothing else, was in some degree endemic throughout. The Dublin Diocesan
> Report on Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy is due for release shortly; it is
> being flagged as likely to be equally shocking. How much more evidence do we
> need?
>
> A female magistrate in Britain spoke on RTE Radio's 'Joe Duffy' phone-in
> programme this afternoon who was a survivor of one of these institutions. An
> educated, articulate, well-spoken woman, she was even now incandescent with
> rage at the words of apologists for Church and State in this context. The
> entire population here are exercised by these revelations today; I take
> comfort in the fact that a significant number of those from middle class
> backgrounds, both commentators and members of the public alike who have
> spoken out are voicing honest outrage and disgust without themselves having
> any personal axe to grind. Too little, too late, but an improvement on the
> habitual indifference of the past.
>
> Ultan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- "Patrick O'Sullivan" wrote:
> > From: phart[at]mun.ca
> > To: The Irish Diaspora Studies List
> > Subject: Re: [IR-D] Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
> >
> > So much could be said - I believe Newfoundland was the first place in
> > North
> > America to hold such an inquiry, and court cases still drag on.
> >
> > One thing seems clear, and that is - regardless of national or
> > religious
> > culture
> > - that prison-like total institutions are terribly corruptible, and to
> > put
> > children in them is just an awful idea. Also, Irishness would seem to
> > be a
> > minor factor given the similar goings-on at both church and state
> > level
> > throughout Catholic North America and, it would seem, in Latin America
> > as
> > well.
> > Thus, it also seems clear that the model of sacralized celibacy and
> > authoritarianism just doesn't work either, not for anything to do
> > with
> > children, and not in real terms. My impression is that many western
> > priests
> > lead pretty active sex lives of one sort or another.
> >
> > Peter Hart
> >
> > Quoting Ultan Cowley :
> >
> > > This comes as no surprise to me either Liam...
> > >
> > > I was in a Christian Brothers boarding school, not far from Artane,
> > between
> > > the ages of eleven and fifteen. Two of my half-sister's sons were
> > in
> > > Fairyhouse in Clonmel from early childhood until their mid-teens.
> > Many of
> > the
> > > damaged men I met researching the history of the Irish in British
> > > construction were survivors of such institutions (one third of
> > survivors
> > > emigrated to England on release). I left Ireland aged fifteen in
> > 1961.
> > >
> > > At the root of the depravity is the Irish Catholic obsession with
> > repressing
> > > sexuality and the consequences that had for children conned into
> > believing,
> > > at the impressionable age of twelve to fourteen or fifteen, that
> > they had
> > a
> > > religious vocation. In my institution beautiful young visiting
> > priests and
> > > religious addressed us on the joys and rewards of the religious life
> > and
> > > blank sheets of paper were distributed on which one had to state
> > one'sw
> > > interest or toehrwise in talking further privately with these men
> > about a
> > > possible vocation. It would break your heart to have to disappoint
> > > them...Luckily I myself held out.
> > >
> > > In the novitiates the natural sexual urges of those who joined were
> > exploited
> > > by their mentors, teaching them that sexual gratification WAS
> > possible -
> > but
> > > only in an atmosphere of secrecy, and at the expense of the
> > powerless and
> > > vulnerable. Abuse begets abuse...
> > >
> > > Post-Independence Ireland was a brutal, backward, and benighted
> > society;
> > > intentionally inequitable, unjust, and rotten to the core. I advise
> > anyone
> > > who imagines otherwise to read this report. Cead Mile Failte!
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From: Patrick O'Sullivan
Subject: Previously on Journal of American Ethnic History
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From: "Patrick O'Sullivan"
To: "IR-D Jiscmail"

We are now very dependent on personal contacts - and gossip - when it comes
to matters of interest in the US journals. I used to have things organised
better - but a lot of things have fallen over or become expensive. Now we
are dependent on things like JSTOR and Project Muse. But there is a
considerable time delay there...

Whilst seeing if I could finagle access to the latest issue of the JAEH, on
the Irish in... (And sorry, no luck so far...) I did notice that the
previous issue contained items of interest. Information pasted in below...

The articles by Gerber and Kamphoefner will interest those who study and
collect letters. The special feature on museums will interest a number of
Ir-D members. Frizzell's review essay makes for discussion and comparison.
And then there is Bill Mulligan's very appreciative review of Susannah Ural
Bruce, The Harp and the Eagle...

P.O'S.

Journal of American Ethnic History
VOLUME 28 NUMBER 3 SPRING 2009

ARTICLES
DAVID A. GERBER 7
"Yankeys Now"?: Joseph and Rebecca Hartley's Circuitous Path to American
Identity-A Case Study in the Use of Immigrant Letters as Social
Documentation

WALTER D. KAMPHOEFNER 34
Immigrant Epistolary and Epistemology: On the Motivators and Mentality of
Nineteenth-Century German Immigrants

SPECIAL FEATURE:
ETHNIC MUSEUM REVIEWS

DOMINIC A. PACYGA 55
Chicago: City of the Big "Little" Museums

EILEEN H. TAMURA 66
Ethnic Museums in Hawai'i: Exhibits, Interpreters, and Reenactments

ANJU REEJHSINGHANI 74
Museums in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, of Interest to Ethnic Historians

REVIEW ESSAY
ROBERT W. FRIZZELL 89
Germans in Nineteenth-Century America: Old Issues, New Approaches, and
Future Directions in German American Historiography

WILLIAM H. MULLIGAN JR. 94
The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army,
1861-1865, by Susannah Ural Bruce

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From: Liam Greenslade
Subject: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
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I haven't been able to get hold of a copy of the report yet but my mate
Bock the Robber, the Limerick blogger, has produced a couple of
summaries of both the report data and the witness statements which you
can get here:

http://bocktherobber.com/2009/05/clerical-abuse-victims-in-their-own-words

and here

http://bocktherobber.com/2009/05/commission-on-child-abuse-report-published

Other than to point once again to the failure of indigenous Irish
society, and the native bourgeois class in particular, to concern itself
with anything more than its own survival, there are no words adequate to
describe the reign of terror which the Catholic hierarchy presided over
for so long. That the Irish taxpayer is now footing the 1.3 billion Euro
bill for the abuse carried out in its name by the Catholic theocracy, a
fact which, since it is impossible to undo the damage done, I find even
more galling. The very people who suffered will contribute to the
compensation bill while the perpetrators will escape with their assets
intact.

In my work on migrant mental health, I encountered so many people whose
problems ultimately resided in the psycho-social and sexual abuse they
had experienced at the hands of brutal religious in Ireland. Their
difficulties were often severely exacerbated by the fact that, because
of their experiences, they were effectively excluded from the network of
support which the Catholic church provided to Irish migrants in Britain,
something it was singularly failing to do at home.

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From: Kerby Miller
Subject: Re: Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse - Report
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Would it be accurate to say that in Ireland the brutal Dickensian standards
of 19th-century "custodial reform" converged, first, with the unusual
authority and peculiar pathologies of the Catholic church and, then, more
recently, with the new brutality and parsimony inflicted by neo-liberalism?

I.e., that, unlike the US or the UK, perhaps, in Ireland there was little o=
r
no "progressive" or "humanitarian reformist" interlude between 19th and lat=
e
20th-century standards of "institutional care"? Perhaps attributable,
sadly, to the 26 counties' uncoupling from the UK, and, as Liam says, to th=
e
consequent empowerment of the Church and a socially-reactionary, anti-tax
Catholic bourgeoisie over "social services" in independent Ireland?

If so, then I must admit, this is at least one instance in which I'd agree
with the most extreme revisionist position on the "tragedy [or farce] of
Irish independence."

Interestingly, if the analysis in the first paragraph is accurate, this
would represent a rare instance of convergence (vs. conflict) between
"traditional" Catholic and neo-liberal ideology and practice, since both
have a minimalist and authoritarian attitude toward "social welfare."
Arguably, too, both represent forms of privatization of social services.

Peter's Canadian analogies are very interesting. What about, say, the
Spanish experience, first under Franco (allied with a reactionary Church)
and now under more-or-less neo-liberal regimes? Did the Spanish Church
enjoy such totalizing control over similar welfare services, custodial
institutions, education for the poor, etc.? As Peter wonders, are the
patterns generically "Catholic" or peculiarly "Irish Catholic"? Italian
and/or Latin American comparisons might also be fruitful.

Finally, what about Northern Ireland? Very different, because part of the
UK and hence benefiting from the development of the secular welfare state?
But, we must remember the horrific Kincora scandal, as well. A one-off or
emblematic? =20

Kerby =20


On 5/22/09 4:33 AM, "micheal.ohaodha" wrote:

> As somebody involved in writing a large number of Traveller memoirs/life
> histories - often of people who have passed on now - I came across refer=
ences
> to the detentions of certain Traveller children (mainly from the west of
> Ireland) in horrible institutions/hellholes such as Letterfrack - usually=
for
> short periods of time (and for the most ridiculous "crimes" - petty thiev=
ing -
> steal four buns and get four years etc.) - in the cases of the people tha=
t I
> recorded - and whose experiences were recalled in the books - e.g. The
> Candlelight Painter - (by Willy Cauley (RIP) - the biggest word that the=
y
> used all of the time was "abandoned" and "neglected" and that people's mi=
nds
> were hurt and damaged beyond recovery after their stay there. Also - if t=
hey
> had family living outside - there was sometimes a "hostility" afterwards
> between themselves and the family - especially if they weren't visited cl=
ose
> relatives for the duration of their stay in these places.
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> =20
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> An eminent psychiatrist/psychologist - one of the most senior in the stat=
e)
> was interviewed on Radio na Gaeltachta - (you can say things in Irish as
> relating to Irish public discourse that you often can't say in English!) =
- the
> day this awful report came out - This woman was interviewed in relation t=
o the
> whole area of neglect as relating to children in care today in Ireland.
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> =20
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> She said that in terms of "neglect" many of these places where children a=
re in
> care are not much better at all than they were back fifty years ago.
>=20
> There might not be a "reign of terror" and the awful evils of sexual perv=
erts
> but, essentially, many these institutions still belong to a different cen=
tury.
> The interviewer questioned her about this and she reiterated this asserti=
on.
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> =20
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> Also worth noting that (most likely) half of our prison population should=
not
> be in prison at all but should be getting help and counselling for
>=20
> drug/drink addiction, psychiatric care, homelessness - there are allegedl=
y
> even homeless people who make sure to "check themselves" into prison
>=20
> around Christmas and periods where the weather is severe.
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> =20
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> I don't know what the numbers of children in care are now - I'd imagine t=
hat
> they are high - it is not easy to get people to adopt or foster - constan=
t
> messages encouraging this sent out from the Health Boards all of the tim=
e
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> Have things changed/ improved that much really?
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> =20
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> Beannachta=ED=20
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> Dr. M=EDche=E1l =D3 hAodha
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> Lecturer=20
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> Dept of History=20
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> University of Limerick
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> =20
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> =20
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> =20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Irish Diaspora Studies List [mailto:IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Beh=
alf
> Of Patrick O'Sullivan
> Sent: 22 May 2009 10:02
> To: IR-D[at]JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: [IR-D] Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse - Report
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> =20
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> Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse
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> =20
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> The Report of the Commission is now freely available on the web site. Li=
nks
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> pasted in below. The full Report in pdf format is a very big file indeed=
-
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> and only to be recommended if your archive needs that kind of full record=
.
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> =20
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> The HTML version is displayed with a contents page, leading to individual
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> chapters. Very manageable...
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> Almost the most poignant and distressing section is Volume III, Section 1=
0,
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> Positive memories and experiences...
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> P.O'S.
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> http://www.childabusecommission.ie/
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> Commission Report
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> The Commission Report is now available to download.
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> View the Executive Summary in accessible HTML format.
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> http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/ExecSummary.php
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> =20
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> View the Commission Report in accessible HTML format.
>=20
> http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/
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> =20
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> Download the Executive Summary in PDF format
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> http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/pdfs/CICA-Executive%20Summary.pdf
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> =20
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> Download the Commission Report in PDF format
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> http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/pdfs/