Ah here.
The Limerick Leader, February 12, 1913.
A month inside.
From Liam Hogan‘s excellent History is What We Choose To Remember blog.
Thanks Liam
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Ah here.
The Limerick Leader, February 12, 1913.
A month inside.
From Liam Hogan‘s excellent History is What We Choose To Remember blog.
Thanks Liam
Worth reminding people of that one.
The sheer arrogance of theocracy.
There was a British film about a borstal in the 1970s “Scum” and I recall that religious attendance featured in that also, in Britain in the 1970s. Religion was probably seen as putting order and structure on those in difficult situations.
Why am I not surprised by this. Too much power for far too long. Still too much power these days.
Who has too much power? The Church of Ireland? The Kilrush Union was a CoI institution.
Yes, important to point out that this was a rule applied across all workhouses in Britain and Ireland at this time. See Article 27 here > http://www.workhouses.org.uk/pllo/pllo1913.pdf
Church, I came to the conclusion that the church had too much power from reading that.
In this case it’s the CoI.
Forever in a month for Sundays.
Oh right… I was initially outraged by the thought of people being sent to prison for not going to mass. Then I realised they weren’t proper people. They were workhouse men. I think ‘fear of God’ was, like, one of the main rules of the workhouse. Bad men, these guys. Hope they got solitary.
Fear him people… For he is Lord. And he doth imprison fellows who say anything to the contrary.
PS No abortions. Life of the child is sacred etc. etc.
It becomes a person when the bible says it becomes a person.
Or the Pope, or whoever it is that says.
…it’s the pope’s annointed one – Breda O’Brien.
Divine Service is Anglican, not Catholic.
Yes, but Catholic chaplains were assigned to each workhouse. Services provided for both CoI and Catholic ‘inmates’.
That IS a great blog.
And religious orders continued to prescribe the punishment to absconders…well up until the 1980s. Refuse any part of religious protocol in a Catholic school and you’d soon smart.
That’s a fairly sweeping statement that doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny. For example, Lord Molyneaux, he of the Ulster Unionist party and an Anglican, attended a local catholic school and I’ve heard him say on TV that he got on grand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Molyneaux,_Baron_Molyneaux_of_Killead
well i’ve just spent a few hours trawling that blog – some absolutely fascinating stuff.