Official Reports
http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Report-into-adoption-practises-in-Ireland-since-1922.pdf
Report into the history of adoption in Ireland since 1922
1. Sean Ross Abbey.
2. Castlepollard.
3. Bessborough.
4. Mother & Baby Homes
July 2013
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/world/europe/21ireland.html
Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released in Dublin on Wednesday.
https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Statistical-Report-1935-1936.pdf
The Cussen Report 1936;- into Industrial and Reformatory Schools.
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/14968/download
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-06-11/7/
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/files/122984446/Organizations_and_violence.pdf
Organisations and violence: The child as abject-boundary in Ireland’s industrial schools;-
https://www.ihrec.ie/download/pdf/ihrc_assessment_of_the_human_rights_issues_arising_in_relation_to_the_magdalen_laundries_nov_2010.pdf
Assessment of the Human Rights Issues Arising in relation to the “Magdalen Laundries”——-November 2010
https://www2.bc.edu/james-smith-2/Politicsofsexualknowledge.pdf
The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland’s Containment Culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)
James M. Smith——Boston College
IN IR E L A N D—whenever a child is born out of wedlock, so shocked is the public sense by the very unusual occurrence, that it brands with an irrepa-rable stigma, and, to a large extent, excommunicates the woman guilty of the crime.”1Writing in 1922, the same year that the Irish Free State was founded, James F. Cassidy, himself a Catholic priest, captured the inherent contradictions informing contemporary Irish attitudes toward women’s virtue and outlined the ramifications for those women who violated that social and moral ideal. Branded by the public as simultaneously a mother and a criminal, a family member and an outcast, the unmarried mother faced shame, betrayal, and exile. With little or no social welfare system to fall back on, her choices were limited to entering the county home, begging on the streets, or possibly resorting to prostitution. Cassidy’s scenario carefully avoided the unmarried mother’s male partner, father to her “illegitimate” child. Similarly, he ignored the social power brokers—Church and state--that facilitated these communal responses. The historically powerful Catholic Church and the fledgling Irish Free State cooperated increasingly throughout the 1920s as the self-appointed guardians of the nation’s moral climate. Already by 1925 this partnership had provoked legislation establishing censorship of films and proscribing divorce, characteristic hallmarks of the socially repressive Free State society.
http://cf.broadsheet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Report-into-adoption-practises-in-Ireland-since-1922.pdf
Report into the history of adoption in Ireland since 1922
1. Sean Ross Abbey.
2. Castlepollard.
3. Bessborough.
4. Mother & Baby Homes
July 2013
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/world/europe/21ireland.html
Tens of thousands of Irish children were sexually, physically and emotionally abused by nuns, priests and others over 60 years in a network of church-run residential schools meant to care for the poor, the vulnerable and the unwanted, according to a report released in Dublin on Wednesday.
https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Statistical-Report-1935-1936.pdf
The Cussen Report 1936;- into Industrial and Reformatory Schools.
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/eppi/documents/14968/download
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2009-06-11/7/
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/files/122984446/Organizations_and_violence.pdf
Organisations and violence: The child as abject-boundary in Ireland’s industrial schools;-
https://www.ihrec.ie/download/pdf/ihrc_assessment_of_the_human_rights_issues_arising_in_relation_to_the_magdalen_laundries_nov_2010.pdf
Assessment of the Human Rights Issues Arising in relation to the “Magdalen Laundries”——-November 2010
https://www2.bc.edu/james-smith-2/Politicsofsexualknowledge.pdf
The Politics of Sexual Knowledge: The Origins of Ireland’s Containment Culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)
James M. Smith——Boston College
IN IR E L A N D—whenever a child is born out of wedlock, so shocked is the public sense by the very unusual occurrence, that it brands with an irrepa-rable stigma, and, to a large extent, excommunicates the woman guilty of the crime.”1Writing in 1922, the same year that the Irish Free State was founded, James F. Cassidy, himself a Catholic priest, captured the inherent contradictions informing contemporary Irish attitudes toward women’s virtue and outlined the ramifications for those women who violated that social and moral ideal. Branded by the public as simultaneously a mother and a criminal, a family member and an outcast, the unmarried mother faced shame, betrayal, and exile. With little or no social welfare system to fall back on, her choices were limited to entering the county home, begging on the streets, or possibly resorting to prostitution. Cassidy’s scenario carefully avoided the unmarried mother’s male partner, father to her “illegitimate” child. Similarly, he ignored the social power brokers—Church and state--that facilitated these communal responses. The historically powerful Catholic Church and the fledgling Irish Free State cooperated increasingly throughout the 1920s as the self-appointed guardians of the nation’s moral climate. Already by 1925 this partnership had provoked legislation establishing censorship of films and proscribing divorce, characteristic hallmarks of the socially repressive Free State society.
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PB09000504
Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
On 29 November 2009, the Minister for Justice and Equality, in keeping with the statutory obligation under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, published Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin on the Department's website as well as through the Government Publications Office. The report below is, for legal reasons, a redacted version of that original report.
Cover Part 1 (PDF - 161KB)
Signature Page (PDF - 111KB)
Part 1 Beginning (PDF - 22KB)
Part 1 (PDF - 45KB)
Cover Part 2 (PDF - 167KB)
Part 2 (PDF 1.44MB)
Cover Appendices (PDF - 163KB)
Appendices (PDF - 941KB)
Further portions of report by Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child abuse against clerics of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
Further Portions (PDF - 157KB)
Supplementary Report into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
Dublin Supplementary Report (PDF - 386KB)
Report by Commission of Investigation into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
On 29 November 2009, the Minister for Justice and Equality, in keeping with the statutory obligation under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004, published Report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin on the Department's website as well as through the Government Publications Office. The report below is, for legal reasons, a redacted version of that original report.
Cover Part 1 (PDF - 161KB)
Signature Page (PDF - 111KB)
Part 1 Beginning (PDF - 22KB)
Part 1 (PDF - 45KB)
Cover Part 2 (PDF - 167KB)
Part 2 (PDF 1.44MB)
Cover Appendices (PDF - 163KB)
Appendices (PDF - 941KB)
Further portions of report by Commission of Investigation into the handling by Church and State authorities of allegations and suspicions of child abuse against clerics of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
Further Portions (PDF - 157KB)
Supplementary Report into Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin
Dublin Supplementary Report (PDF - 386KB)
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Cloyne_Rpt.pdf/Files/Cloyne_Rpt.pdf
Sexual abuse in Cloyne Diocese
The sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne was investigated by the Commission of Investigation, Dublin Archdiocese, Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, examining how allegations of sexual abuse of children in the diocese were dealt with by the church and state.
Sexual abuse in Cloyne Diocese
The sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne was investigated by the Commission of Investigation, Dublin Archdiocese, Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, examining how allegations of sexual abuse of children in the diocese were dealt with by the church and state.
https://www.lenus.ie/bitstream/handle/10147/560434/thefernsreportoctober2005.pdf?sequence=2
The Ferns Report
The Ferns Report was an official Irish government inquiry into the allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns in County Wexford, Ireland
The Ferns Report
The Ferns Report was an official Irish government inquiry into the allegations of clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns in County Wexford, Ireland
http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/report_in_plain_sight.pdf
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.
Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
In Plain Sight-Responding to the Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports
By Carole Holohan
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”.
Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
In Plain Sight-Responding to the Ferns, Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne Reports
By Carole Holohan
https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CAT/Shared%20Documents/VAT/INT_CAT_CSS_VAT_17035_E.pdf
Shadow Report
Prepared for 52nd Session of the UN Committee Against Torture in Connection with its Review of the Holy See
Submitted by the Centre for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
April 2014 © Megan Peterson, 2013
Shadow Report
Prepared for 52nd Session of the UN Committee Against Torture in Connection with its Review of the Holy See
Submitted by the Centre for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
April 2014 © Megan Peterson, 2013
