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Dr Laura McAtackney
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The justifications for destroying the recordings and transcripts of survivors of #mothersandbabyhomes are getting tiresome. A Commission is not 'protecting' survivors by pre-emptively destroying all the evidence they provided.https:
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As someone who has worked with oral testimonies - which are often with marginalized groups of people on sensitive subjects - I cannot understand the ethics this commission was working
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Proviso that I need to really get through the #motherandbabyhomes report but I’ve read the executive summary and it is startling the hierarchy of blame often starts with society and
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‘ ... the proportion of Irish unmarried mothers who were in mother and baby homes was the highest in the world. In 1967 the number of babies who were adopted
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At this stage I’m not sure if the IT is being willfully naive or doesn’t really want to understand how commemoration works. Intro 101 is that commemoration is never just
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It’s really noticeable how any discussion about Ireland and the British Empire - and especially how it’s lack of honest discussion continues to impact on us today - drags out
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Interesting article from Trinity Professor Jane Ohlmeyer on Ireland’s complicated relationship with the British Empire. She covers a lot of important points (it is very difficult to cover all points
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And so the centenary of partition begins(ish) and with it some (hopefully) nuanced discussions about how it unfolded, had real and imagined impacts (+ and -) and how Brexit has
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The handwringing about including Unionists and their symbols into a united Ireland! Does anyone need reminded there were unionists (with their symbols!) in the 26 counties? Do we need a
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Yikes, the slick attempts at branding of the centenary of the creation of the state / partition (delete as preferred) does not bode well. Contentious commemorations can’t just pretend to
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I know by now I shouldn’t find this IT columns so bizarre but for me, a Northerner, they really are. Critiques of contemporary SF without any hint that Irish history
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I know journalists can't be experts on everything but this article presents a very one-sided view of what has been a very nuanced 'decade of commemorations'. It has greatly benefited
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