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Post by cato on Jan 10, 2019 21:50:51 GMT
I was a bit surprised at enjoying RTEs new drama series on the Irish Revolution of the 1920s until the sadistic evil nuns made their predictable appearance. I suppose it's inevitable all the women are strong 2019 types but it so boringly predictable that the writers indulge in such a cardboard cut out caricature of the past.
Modern children must be confused at times at wondering why the real enemies of the Irish people (the church naturally) weren't driven out by the girls of the IRA along with the Brits.
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Post by cato on Jan 15, 2019 15:10:39 GMT
As a post script to the above the script writer deliberately wrote in the evil nuns theme after she heard of the Tuam babies burial story.
That story has been used as a stick to beat the old regime. It is very convenient no one is left alive who can tell us what the actual practices were in Tuam .Children's minister Minister Zappone fresh from her abortion victory now has ordered a full archaelogical forensic dig of the site. Archaelogy doesn't provide us with historical social context. It does seem strange that this method of burial was unique to one convent. I do think Tuam was a tragic sad place but we do need to see it in a full wider scheme of things.
Resistance fails to point out ,so far, that catholicism was the genuine freely chosen outlook of most Irish people in the 1920s and not some type of sadistic external force.
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