Our public anger is the incoherent expression of our private shame (Irish Examiner)

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1. My Father

These are the times when I wish my father was still alive so I could ask him what he knew about these homes. He was born in Cork Ireland in 1929 and he left in 1956. As a young man I was always aware of the many women who had children but did not have a father around and what I found out was that divorce was illegal in Ireland until just recently so many of these women had just moved on with their lives. The Catholic Church is so interwoven into the history of Ireland both good and bad and this discovery may be the straw that forces the people and the government to look at the church in a different light.