Should the Irish Catholic Church Pay Reparations for Slavery?
Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation.— John Locke, “Second Treatise”
Catholic Bible;-
12. If your kin, a Hebrew man or woman, sells himself or herself to you, he or she is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year you shall release him or her as a free person.
13. When you release a male from your service, as a free person, you shall not send him away empty-handed,
14. but shall weigh him down with gifts from your flock and threshing floor and wine press; as the LORD, your God, has blessed you, so you shall give to him.
15. For remember that you too were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD, your God, redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today. ------Deuteronomy 15: 12–15
Religious texts in Judaism, Islam and Christianity all recognise slaves. So the question I pose is should the Irish Catholic Church pay financial reparations to the women and children of their Religious run Institutions, like the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland?. My answer is a clear “YES”, the IrishCatholic Church made money, hundreds of millions of pounds from the dehumanisation and demonising of unwed women and their children. It is naive to think that the past has nothing to do with the shape of today. It’s not enough that the Irish Catholic Church closest to ever offer a full apology was “ with deep sorrow and great sadness”. Financial reparations should be paid in consideration of the forced and uncompensated labour these women and their children performed in the Religious run Institutions in Ireland in which the Irish Catholic Church gained. Also many private institutions and local business, gained with the use of free labour from these Religious run Institutions.
These are the reasons why:
1. The women and their children built these Religious Institutions against their will. They were compensated with rape, torture, beating and death.
2. The women and their children never had anything of value to pass down to generations to keep their memories alive, many lost their complete families within these run Religious Institutions.
3. Slaves of these Religious run Institutions were not considered humans so we have no true documented history of where we are from, who we are related to or anything pertaining to our family history.
I believe that our entire Irish society would benefit from this move of paying reparations to the women and children of these Religious Institutions. First of all, much of the economy of these Religious run Institutions, current and past were built upon the success of the Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools, with the use of free slave labour in the form of women and their children. For example all the Magdalene Laundries made money with the use of free slaves in the form of women and their children, who were held captive in these Religious run Institutions. The Religious Orders as slave owners were allowed to do whatever they wanted to their slaves including beating them, sometimes to death, raping them, including impregnating them, stealing their children and babies from them to be sold as slaves and worse than anything else, dehumanising them. In many areas of these Religious run Institutions, educating their slaves was actually discouraged. The Religious Orders took any possibility of education away from them. If our parents were not educated then we would begin life with a severe disadvantage. We went a step further by continuing to deny educational opportunities once slavery in these Religious run Institutions had ended. In addition to this, the Religious run Institutions actually convinced many of women and their children that they were, in fact, less human than other Irish people. Many of the women and their children of these Religious Institutions, believed they were animals.
The Irish Catholic Church, run Institutions, sold thousands, of women and children into a hellish life of slavery, including the illegal sale of babies abroad to finance the Irish Catholic Church’s continuous operations and expansions, both at home and abroad. On that fact alone, there is no dispute, the Irish Catholic Church history’s worst crimes against humanity, was the selling of children and babies as slaves. Another fact, Catholic Church, run Institutions in Ireland sold children as slaves for vast profits for a low estimate of $100 million dollars. This revenue from the sales of babies and children subsidised expansions of their state schools and private hospitals that the Religious Institutions ran at the time and run to this day, and paid the school and hospital building debts that the Irish Catholic Church, had accumulated at the time. Many Convents, schools, churches lands, bishops palaces, church buildings and hospitals, private nursing homes were all built on the broken backs of slave children and their mothers. All the women and children of the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools in Ireland were slaves. Now it seems to some morally imperative that they, the Irish Catholic Church, repay their ethical debts to these former slaves of these heinous Religious run Institutions. When the Religious run Institutions fell into financial trouble, the illegal sale of the Irish babies, women and children staved off its ruin.
Finally, Church’s asset portfolio included 10,700 properties, the Catholic Church in Ireland own or occupied more than 10,700 properties across the country and controlled nearly 6,700 religious and educational sites. With property worth in excess of 10 billion Euros, plus billions more in assets like Hard-Cash, Art, Books, Manuscripts, Gold, Silver, Jewels, Furniture, and other investments. This information was gleaned from known records. Something else the Irish Catholic Church pays no taxes an even get vast sums of free money from the Irish Government. So the money for paying reparations could easily come from the very wealthy Irish Catholic Church’s assets. If we moved that Irish Catholic Church money, into reparations it would provide the recompense deserved for the abuse of all the Survivors, it would help also to remove the stigma many Survivors feel today. I want to elaborate on how reparations improve Survivors lives. By acknowledging the disadvantage created by slavery in these Catholic Church run Institutions and the subsequent human rights violations committed in them. It’s important even significant factor that slavery played a huge part in bolstering the economic strength of the Irish Catholic Church, and Ireland in general.
We here in Ireland must take responsibility as a nation for allowing such a thing to exist, we also restore the dignity of that suffering to those, the Survivors, who have descended from it and most certainly been impacted by it. Improving those relationships and removing the stigma from the money that this Irish Catholic Church should distribute, would unite our nation, improve our economy (putting money into the hands of people who will spend it) and significantly improve the conditions for many of our elderly Survivors. The Irish Catholic Church directly benefited from the slavery of these women and their children, as did all the Religious Orders, with the illegally, selling of babies and children, enforced labour on the captive women and their children. The vast profit making of the Industrial Schools through the selling of their farm products, clothing, shoes, and carpentry, and of course the illegal trafficking of babies and children directly out of the Mother and Baby Homes of Ireland. Also the vast profits made in the Magdalene Laundries run as a criminal enterprise with the full support of the Irish Government and Irish Business Contracts.
These women and children of the Religious run Institutions in Ireland, did not go to a proper school and had little or no time to play. Also in most cases they very often did not receive proper nutrition or care. They lived the life of an adult and had their childhood, abused, raped and stolen. A vast majority of the women and their children worked in hazardous environments, as slaves. The women and their children were forced to work long hours as slaves in the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland. Many within the Religious Orders that ran these vile Institutions, beat, raped and even killed their charges, forcing the women and children to work long hours, many in poor health. Many women and their children were physically tortured, with beatings, rapes and starvations. All the women and Children were verbally abused and physical assaulted on a daily basis, many women and children were worked or beaten to death. Child slavery and child labour was acceptable in our society and encouraged and run by the Irish Catholic Church.
Let’s be clear, child labour, exploitation and child slavery destroys the innocence of the child, children should not have their childhood taken away. It is not the children’s duty nor should it never be the duty, to meet the needs of the Irish Catholic Church, in all cases, child labour leads to corruption, child abuse, child rape, human trafficking and slavery. Slavery in any form is wrong and it is disgusting that the Irish Catholic Church profited by enslaving women and children in their Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland. “Slavery is the use or the threat of violence to make another do work without compensation”, and this is what the powerful Irish Catholic Church did. The Irish Catholic Church’s now has a Moral Debt owed to these women and children of their Religious Run Institutions.
Slavery is the ownership, buying and selling of human beings for the purpose of forced and unpaid labour, and this is what the Irish Catholic Church did with tens of thousands of unwed mothers and their children throughout its many Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Even Irish Catholic Church practice of slavery didn't usually try to defend it - they made excuses and attempt to avoid being caught; which suggests that they, the Irish Catholic Church know that they were doing wrong.
• Slavery increases total human unhappiness
• The slave-owner treats the slaves as the means to achieve the slave-owner's ends, not as an end in themselves
• Slavery exploits and degrades human beings
• Slavery violates human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights explicitly forbids slavery and many of the practices associated with slavery
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”.
Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”.
Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”.
Article 4, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Slavery uses force or the threat of force on other human beings
• Slavery leaves a legacy of discrimination and disadvantage
• Slavery is both the result and the fuel of gender discrimination
• Slavery perpetuates the abuse of children
While slavery was certainly an accepted part of life in Ireland during that time, paying those reparations would be far more significant than constantly lying or selling of the land only to find secret burial sites, or tearing down Church buildings to hid the truth. For the Survivors, this can be a powerful moment of finding some peace for lost lives and families. Many of the Survivors have wept openly when they were told of family histories blighted in these hellholes of Religious Institutions that had been a mystery to them.The Survivors want their families recognised in a durable way. Some would like to see a permanent memorial, but where, and what!!. Many Survivors what to continue to find their family, real people with real names, and not a nameless body or bodies dumped into black pits at the back of all the Irish Religious run Institutions.
How ironic from the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis considers exploitation 'a grievous wound in the body of humanity’ and therefore for Catholics a wound in the body of Christ. If Pope Francis believes his own words, then let him speak out about the past practice of slavery of women and children in the Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland.
Some children were kidnapped by force, by the Nuns often after their Mothers had died, during birth or the mother was murdered, by neglect, or deprived of medications, in the Mother and Baby Homes of Ireland. These kidnapped babies would not be permitted to remain even with other living relatives who were lawfully married and in some cases had no children of their own. Other kidnapped children were sent to special centres and other Religious Institutions to be fattened up for future sales. All their official documents were altered by the enterprising Nuns, including their date of birth, the place they were born in, and their Mother’s name. Some of the kidnapped children had their original metrics of birth destroyed, and their names changed so were classified as "of little sale value" due to chronic undernourishment, deformity or ongoing illness, they would then be sent to other Religious run Institutions, within Ireland or abroad. Many of these kidnapped children now grown women and men, upon returning to Ireland to look for their families, in the last few years, said that their childhood kidnapping and abuses with their new families abroad has left an indelible haunting impression on them, when years later they learned the truth.
The extent of this secret program run by the Irish Catholic Church became clear to researchers over the course of many years, as they found groups of “returning Irish men and women, with dubious paperwork of their birth, false paperwork, issued to their adoptive parents by the Nuns, who sold them as nothing more then chattel. These returning adults, now come to beg for any official help in tracing their true families, which is now provided by the different Survivor groups partly funded by the Irish Government. Locating these children’s childhood was and is a hidden minefield which turned up their horrendous stories of forcible removals, beatings, rapes and even death at the hands of the savage Irish Religious Orders. Some researchers with Bernardo’s Tracing Services, were constituted to search for any paperwork or family that would or could help. But sadly with Irish Religious Order’s paperwork altered deliberately on the adults as children, it has proven hopeless. The Religious run Institutions and the Religious Orders that ran them were trained and coached to provide false information. Thousands of these children now adults, suffered emotional trauma when they were removed forceable from their Mothers or other relatives, and will continue to do so to this day. Many have memories of their wretched childhood, the youngest children sold out of the system had no memories of their mothers or other family members that could be recalled. Now returning in their thousands to Ireland, desperate for any scape of information about their true identity, sadly not finding it, as the criminally desperate Irish Catholic Church, continues to destroy all documentation of their criminal past crimes. Owen Felix O'Neill
Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation.— John Locke, “Second Treatise”
Catholic Bible;-
12. If your kin, a Hebrew man or woman, sells himself or herself to you, he or she is to serve you for six years, but in the seventh year you shall release him or her as a free person.
13. When you release a male from your service, as a free person, you shall not send him away empty-handed,
14. but shall weigh him down with gifts from your flock and threshing floor and wine press; as the LORD, your God, has blessed you, so you shall give to him.
15. For remember that you too were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD, your God, redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today. ------Deuteronomy 15: 12–15
Religious texts in Judaism, Islam and Christianity all recognise slaves. So the question I pose is should the Irish Catholic Church pay financial reparations to the women and children of their Religious run Institutions, like the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland?. My answer is a clear “YES”, the IrishCatholic Church made money, hundreds of millions of pounds from the dehumanisation and demonising of unwed women and their children. It is naive to think that the past has nothing to do with the shape of today. It’s not enough that the Irish Catholic Church closest to ever offer a full apology was “ with deep sorrow and great sadness”. Financial reparations should be paid in consideration of the forced and uncompensated labour these women and their children performed in the Religious run Institutions in Ireland in which the Irish Catholic Church gained. Also many private institutions and local business, gained with the use of free labour from these Religious run Institutions.
These are the reasons why:
1. The women and their children built these Religious Institutions against their will. They were compensated with rape, torture, beating and death.
2. The women and their children never had anything of value to pass down to generations to keep their memories alive, many lost their complete families within these run Religious Institutions.
3. Slaves of these Religious run Institutions were not considered humans so we have no true documented history of where we are from, who we are related to or anything pertaining to our family history.
I believe that our entire Irish society would benefit from this move of paying reparations to the women and children of these Religious Institutions. First of all, much of the economy of these Religious run Institutions, current and past were built upon the success of the Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools, with the use of free slave labour in the form of women and their children. For example all the Magdalene Laundries made money with the use of free slaves in the form of women and their children, who were held captive in these Religious run Institutions. The Religious Orders as slave owners were allowed to do whatever they wanted to their slaves including beating them, sometimes to death, raping them, including impregnating them, stealing their children and babies from them to be sold as slaves and worse than anything else, dehumanising them. In many areas of these Religious run Institutions, educating their slaves was actually discouraged. The Religious Orders took any possibility of education away from them. If our parents were not educated then we would begin life with a severe disadvantage. We went a step further by continuing to deny educational opportunities once slavery in these Religious run Institutions had ended. In addition to this, the Religious run Institutions actually convinced many of women and their children that they were, in fact, less human than other Irish people. Many of the women and their children of these Religious Institutions, believed they were animals.
The Irish Catholic Church, run Institutions, sold thousands, of women and children into a hellish life of slavery, including the illegal sale of babies abroad to finance the Irish Catholic Church’s continuous operations and expansions, both at home and abroad. On that fact alone, there is no dispute, the Irish Catholic Church history’s worst crimes against humanity, was the selling of children and babies as slaves. Another fact, Catholic Church, run Institutions in Ireland sold children as slaves for vast profits for a low estimate of $100 million dollars. This revenue from the sales of babies and children subsidised expansions of their state schools and private hospitals that the Religious Institutions ran at the time and run to this day, and paid the school and hospital building debts that the Irish Catholic Church, had accumulated at the time. Many Convents, schools, churches lands, bishops palaces, church buildings and hospitals, private nursing homes were all built on the broken backs of slave children and their mothers. All the women and children of the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools in Ireland were slaves. Now it seems to some morally imperative that they, the Irish Catholic Church, repay their ethical debts to these former slaves of these heinous Religious run Institutions. When the Religious run Institutions fell into financial trouble, the illegal sale of the Irish babies, women and children staved off its ruin.
Finally, Church’s asset portfolio included 10,700 properties, the Catholic Church in Ireland own or occupied more than 10,700 properties across the country and controlled nearly 6,700 religious and educational sites. With property worth in excess of 10 billion Euros, plus billions more in assets like Hard-Cash, Art, Books, Manuscripts, Gold, Silver, Jewels, Furniture, and other investments. This information was gleaned from known records. Something else the Irish Catholic Church pays no taxes an even get vast sums of free money from the Irish Government. So the money for paying reparations could easily come from the very wealthy Irish Catholic Church’s assets. If we moved that Irish Catholic Church money, into reparations it would provide the recompense deserved for the abuse of all the Survivors, it would help also to remove the stigma many Survivors feel today. I want to elaborate on how reparations improve Survivors lives. By acknowledging the disadvantage created by slavery in these Catholic Church run Institutions and the subsequent human rights violations committed in them. It’s important even significant factor that slavery played a huge part in bolstering the economic strength of the Irish Catholic Church, and Ireland in general.
We here in Ireland must take responsibility as a nation for allowing such a thing to exist, we also restore the dignity of that suffering to those, the Survivors, who have descended from it and most certainly been impacted by it. Improving those relationships and removing the stigma from the money that this Irish Catholic Church should distribute, would unite our nation, improve our economy (putting money into the hands of people who will spend it) and significantly improve the conditions for many of our elderly Survivors. The Irish Catholic Church directly benefited from the slavery of these women and their children, as did all the Religious Orders, with the illegally, selling of babies and children, enforced labour on the captive women and their children. The vast profit making of the Industrial Schools through the selling of their farm products, clothing, shoes, and carpentry, and of course the illegal trafficking of babies and children directly out of the Mother and Baby Homes of Ireland. Also the vast profits made in the Magdalene Laundries run as a criminal enterprise with the full support of the Irish Government and Irish Business Contracts.
These women and children of the Religious run Institutions in Ireland, did not go to a proper school and had little or no time to play. Also in most cases they very often did not receive proper nutrition or care. They lived the life of an adult and had their childhood, abused, raped and stolen. A vast majority of the women and their children worked in hazardous environments, as slaves. The women and their children were forced to work long hours as slaves in the Magdalene Laundries, the Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland. Many within the Religious Orders that ran these vile Institutions, beat, raped and even killed their charges, forcing the women and children to work long hours, many in poor health. Many women and their children were physically tortured, with beatings, rapes and starvations. All the women and Children were verbally abused and physical assaulted on a daily basis, many women and children were worked or beaten to death. Child slavery and child labour was acceptable in our society and encouraged and run by the Irish Catholic Church.
Let’s be clear, child labour, exploitation and child slavery destroys the innocence of the child, children should not have their childhood taken away. It is not the children’s duty nor should it never be the duty, to meet the needs of the Irish Catholic Church, in all cases, child labour leads to corruption, child abuse, child rape, human trafficking and slavery. Slavery in any form is wrong and it is disgusting that the Irish Catholic Church profited by enslaving women and children in their Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland. “Slavery is the use or the threat of violence to make another do work without compensation”, and this is what the powerful Irish Catholic Church did. The Irish Catholic Church’s now has a Moral Debt owed to these women and children of their Religious Run Institutions.
Slavery is the ownership, buying and selling of human beings for the purpose of forced and unpaid labour, and this is what the Irish Catholic Church did with tens of thousands of unwed mothers and their children throughout its many Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Even Irish Catholic Church practice of slavery didn't usually try to defend it - they made excuses and attempt to avoid being caught; which suggests that they, the Irish Catholic Church know that they were doing wrong.
• Slavery increases total human unhappiness
• The slave-owner treats the slaves as the means to achieve the slave-owner's ends, not as an end in themselves
• Slavery exploits and degrades human beings
• Slavery violates human rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights explicitly forbids slavery and many of the practices associated with slavery
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”.
Article 1, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person”.
Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms”.
Article 4, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Slavery uses force or the threat of force on other human beings
• Slavery leaves a legacy of discrimination and disadvantage
• Slavery is both the result and the fuel of gender discrimination
• Slavery perpetuates the abuse of children
While slavery was certainly an accepted part of life in Ireland during that time, paying those reparations would be far more significant than constantly lying or selling of the land only to find secret burial sites, or tearing down Church buildings to hid the truth. For the Survivors, this can be a powerful moment of finding some peace for lost lives and families. Many of the Survivors have wept openly when they were told of family histories blighted in these hellholes of Religious Institutions that had been a mystery to them.The Survivors want their families recognised in a durable way. Some would like to see a permanent memorial, but where, and what!!. Many Survivors what to continue to find their family, real people with real names, and not a nameless body or bodies dumped into black pits at the back of all the Irish Religious run Institutions.
How ironic from the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis considers exploitation 'a grievous wound in the body of humanity’ and therefore for Catholics a wound in the body of Christ. If Pope Francis believes his own words, then let him speak out about the past practice of slavery of women and children in the Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and the Industrial Schools of Ireland.
Some children were kidnapped by force, by the Nuns often after their Mothers had died, during birth or the mother was murdered, by neglect, or deprived of medications, in the Mother and Baby Homes of Ireland. These kidnapped babies would not be permitted to remain even with other living relatives who were lawfully married and in some cases had no children of their own. Other kidnapped children were sent to special centres and other Religious Institutions to be fattened up for future sales. All their official documents were altered by the enterprising Nuns, including their date of birth, the place they were born in, and their Mother’s name. Some of the kidnapped children had their original metrics of birth destroyed, and their names changed so were classified as "of little sale value" due to chronic undernourishment, deformity or ongoing illness, they would then be sent to other Religious run Institutions, within Ireland or abroad. Many of these kidnapped children now grown women and men, upon returning to Ireland to look for their families, in the last few years, said that their childhood kidnapping and abuses with their new families abroad has left an indelible haunting impression on them, when years later they learned the truth.
The extent of this secret program run by the Irish Catholic Church became clear to researchers over the course of many years, as they found groups of “returning Irish men and women, with dubious paperwork of their birth, false paperwork, issued to their adoptive parents by the Nuns, who sold them as nothing more then chattel. These returning adults, now come to beg for any official help in tracing their true families, which is now provided by the different Survivor groups partly funded by the Irish Government. Locating these children’s childhood was and is a hidden minefield which turned up their horrendous stories of forcible removals, beatings, rapes and even death at the hands of the savage Irish Religious Orders. Some researchers with Bernardo’s Tracing Services, were constituted to search for any paperwork or family that would or could help. But sadly with Irish Religious Order’s paperwork altered deliberately on the adults as children, it has proven hopeless. The Religious run Institutions and the Religious Orders that ran them were trained and coached to provide false information. Thousands of these children now adults, suffered emotional trauma when they were removed forceable from their Mothers or other relatives, and will continue to do so to this day. Many have memories of their wretched childhood, the youngest children sold out of the system had no memories of their mothers or other family members that could be recalled. Now returning in their thousands to Ireland, desperate for any scape of information about their true identity, sadly not finding it, as the criminally desperate Irish Catholic Church, continues to destroy all documentation of their criminal past crimes. Owen Felix O'Neill
Ireland, The Land of Hidden Slaves.
The shame of Ireland’s secret Slaves as Ireland signed many Convention and Treaties as it sough legitimacy as a free and Independent State among the communities of Nations. The two most important Conventions and Treaties, Ireland signed as a Sovereign State, were--
1. The Convention on Slavery, with the United Nations (UN) 1961-
2. The European Convention on Human Rights, 1949.
Both of these Conventions the Republic of Ireland signed in spite of the fact that they with the help of their co-rulers, the Irish Catholic Church were running Religious Gulags with tens of thousands of slaves- The Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and Industrial Schools, Orphanages, Hospitals all these Religious run Institution depended on slaves, in the form of brutalised women and stolen children.
The Convention on Slavery of 1926 was an International Treaty, under the auspice of at the time, the League of Nations, which evolved into the United Nations (UN) after the Second World War in 1945. Slavery was first signed on 25 September 1926. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 9 March 1927, the same day it went into effect. The objective of the Convention was to confirm and advance the suppression of all forms of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Ireland joined the United Nations in 1955, signed The UN Convention on Slavery in 1961.
The Verse of the Bible below, by St. Matthew, clearly didn’t have any meaning for the Irish Catholic Church. -
“For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in”:
Slavery exists in the world and here in Ireland up to the closing of the last Gulag, Magdalene Laundry, 1996 in Dublin. There are still hundreds of elderly women, ex-slaves confined in Convents across Ireland, from their childhood days as slaves of the Convents.
Pope Paul VI
And “Populorum Progressio” was the encyclical written by Pope Paul VI on the topic of "the development of peoples" and that the economy of the world should serve mankind and not just the few. It was released on March 26, 1967 and reads..
"Our goal must be, for every man and woman, a life set free from all oppression."Populorum Progressio 47
How very ironic--18th. October 2018 “Slavery exists in the world and here in Ireland today. It exists despite the fact that it is banned in most of the countries where it is practised. Although this exploitation of millions of people, including children, is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are bought and sold like objects and forced to work for little or nothing” . Written by a Nun Sr. Sheila McGowan.
https://www.coistine.ie/home/357-18-october-anti-slavery-day-anti-slavery-day-un-international-day-against-people-trafficking
The Republic of Ireland signed the UN Convention on Slavery on the 19th. July 1961.
The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which was signed by the Republic of Ireland on the 19th. July 1961. The Convention which proposed to secure the abolition of Slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned Child Servitude among the things.
Article 1 - The parties commit to abolish and abandon debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude.
Article 2 - The parties commit to enacting minimum age of marriage, encouraging registration of marriages, and encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage.
Article 3 - Criminalisation of slave trafficking.
Article 4 - Runaway slaves who take refuge on flag vessels of parties shall thereby attain their freedom.
Article 5 - Criminalisation of the marking (including mutilation and branding) of slaves and servile persons.
Article 6 - Criminalisation of enslavement and giving others into slavery.
Article 7 - Definitions of "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade"
Article 9 - No reservations may be made to this Convention.
Article 12 - This Convention shall apply to all non-self-governing-trust, colonial and other non-metropolitan territories to the international relations of which any State Party is responsible.
The European Convention on Human Rights;- In which Ireland was one of the Founder’s on the 5th. May 1949
Article 3 – Torture
Article 3 prohibits torture and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
There are no exceptions or limitations on this right. This provision usually applies, apart from torture, to cases of severe police violence and poor conditions in detention.
The Court has emphasised the fundamental nature of Article 3 in holding that the prohibition is made in "absolute terms ... irrespective of a victim's conduct”. The Court has also held that states cannot deport or extradite individuals who might be subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in the recipient state.
Initially, the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment. Thus the court held that practices such as sleep deprivation, subjecting individual to intense noise and requiring them to stand against a wall with their limbs outstretched for extended periods of time, did not constitute torture. In fact the Court only found a state guilty of torture in 1996 in the case of a detainee who was suspended by his arms while his hands were tied behind his back. Since then the Court has appeared to be more open to finding states guilty of torture and has even ruled that since the Convention is a "living instrument", treatment which it had previously characterised as inhuman or degrading treatment might in future be regarded as torture.
Article 4 – Servitude
Article 4 prohibits Slavery, Servitude and Forced Labour but exempts labour:
Article 5 – Liberty and Security
Article 5 provides that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person.
Liberty and security of the person are taken as a "compound" concept – security of the person has not been subject to separate interpretation by the Court. Article 5 provides the right to liberty, subject only to lawful arrest or detention under certain other circumstances, such as arrest on reasonable suspicion of a crime or imprisonment in fulfilment of a sentence. The article also provides those arrested with the right to be informed, in a language they understand, of the reasons for the arrest and any charge they face, the right of prompt access to judicial proceedings to determine the legality of the arrest or detention, to trial within a reasonable time or release pending trial, and the right to compensation in the case of arrest or detention in violation of this article.
The shame of Ireland’s secret Slaves as Ireland signed many Convention and Treaties as it sough legitimacy as a free and Independent State among the communities of Nations. The two most important Conventions and Treaties, Ireland signed as a Sovereign State, were--
1. The Convention on Slavery, with the United Nations (UN) 1961-
2. The European Convention on Human Rights, 1949.
Both of these Conventions the Republic of Ireland signed in spite of the fact that they with the help of their co-rulers, the Irish Catholic Church were running Religious Gulags with tens of thousands of slaves- The Magdalene Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes and Industrial Schools, Orphanages, Hospitals all these Religious run Institution depended on slaves, in the form of brutalised women and stolen children.
The Convention on Slavery of 1926 was an International Treaty, under the auspice of at the time, the League of Nations, which evolved into the United Nations (UN) after the Second World War in 1945. Slavery was first signed on 25 September 1926. It was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 9 March 1927, the same day it went into effect. The objective of the Convention was to confirm and advance the suppression of all forms of Slavery and the Slave Trade. Ireland joined the United Nations in 1955, signed The UN Convention on Slavery in 1961.
The Verse of the Bible below, by St. Matthew, clearly didn’t have any meaning for the Irish Catholic Church. -
“For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in”:
Slavery exists in the world and here in Ireland up to the closing of the last Gulag, Magdalene Laundry, 1996 in Dublin. There are still hundreds of elderly women, ex-slaves confined in Convents across Ireland, from their childhood days as slaves of the Convents.
Pope Paul VI
And “Populorum Progressio” was the encyclical written by Pope Paul VI on the topic of "the development of peoples" and that the economy of the world should serve mankind and not just the few. It was released on March 26, 1967 and reads..
"Our goal must be, for every man and woman, a life set free from all oppression."Populorum Progressio 47
How very ironic--18th. October 2018 “Slavery exists in the world and here in Ireland today. It exists despite the fact that it is banned in most of the countries where it is practised. Although this exploitation of millions of people, including children, is often not called slavery, the conditions are the same. People are bought and sold like objects and forced to work for little or nothing” . Written by a Nun Sr. Sheila McGowan.
https://www.coistine.ie/home/357-18-october-anti-slavery-day-anti-slavery-day-un-international-day-against-people-trafficking
The Republic of Ireland signed the UN Convention on Slavery on the 19th. July 1961.
The Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, is a 1956 United Nations treaty which builds upon the 1926 Slavery Convention, which was signed by the Republic of Ireland on the 19th. July 1961. The Convention which proposed to secure the abolition of Slavery and of the slave trade, and the Forced Labour Convention of 1930, which banned Child Servitude among the things.
Article 1 - The parties commit to abolish and abandon debt bondage, serfdom, servile marriage and child servitude.
Article 2 - The parties commit to enacting minimum age of marriage, encouraging registration of marriages, and encouraging the public declaration of consent to marriage.
Article 3 - Criminalisation of slave trafficking.
Article 4 - Runaway slaves who take refuge on flag vessels of parties shall thereby attain their freedom.
Article 5 - Criminalisation of the marking (including mutilation and branding) of slaves and servile persons.
Article 6 - Criminalisation of enslavement and giving others into slavery.
Article 7 - Definitions of "slave", "a person of servile status" and "slave trade"
Article 9 - No reservations may be made to this Convention.
Article 12 - This Convention shall apply to all non-self-governing-trust, colonial and other non-metropolitan territories to the international relations of which any State Party is responsible.
The European Convention on Human Rights;- In which Ireland was one of the Founder’s on the 5th. May 1949
Article 3 – Torture
Article 3 prohibits torture and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
There are no exceptions or limitations on this right. This provision usually applies, apart from torture, to cases of severe police violence and poor conditions in detention.
The Court has emphasised the fundamental nature of Article 3 in holding that the prohibition is made in "absolute terms ... irrespective of a victim's conduct”. The Court has also held that states cannot deport or extradite individuals who might be subjected to torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in the recipient state.
Initially, the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment. Thus the court held that practices such as sleep deprivation, subjecting individual to intense noise and requiring them to stand against a wall with their limbs outstretched for extended periods of time, did not constitute torture. In fact the Court only found a state guilty of torture in 1996 in the case of a detainee who was suspended by his arms while his hands were tied behind his back. Since then the Court has appeared to be more open to finding states guilty of torture and has even ruled that since the Convention is a "living instrument", treatment which it had previously characterised as inhuman or degrading treatment might in future be regarded as torture.
Article 4 – Servitude
Article 4 prohibits Slavery, Servitude and Forced Labour but exempts labour:
- done as a normal part of imprisonment,
- in the form of compulsory military service or work done as an alternative by conscientious objectors,
- required to be done during a state of emergency, and
- considered to be a part of a person's normal "civic obligations”.
Article 5 – Liberty and Security
Article 5 provides that everyone has the right to liberty and security of person.
Liberty and security of the person are taken as a "compound" concept – security of the person has not been subject to separate interpretation by the Court. Article 5 provides the right to liberty, subject only to lawful arrest or detention under certain other circumstances, such as arrest on reasonable suspicion of a crime or imprisonment in fulfilment of a sentence. The article also provides those arrested with the right to be informed, in a language they understand, of the reasons for the arrest and any charge they face, the right of prompt access to judicial proceedings to determine the legality of the arrest or detention, to trial within a reasonable time or release pending trial, and the right to compensation in the case of arrest or detention in violation of this article.
How Mary Magdalene Became a Whore
Mention the name Mary Magdalene and most people will free-associate the word “Whore”. Go ahead, please ask any Catholic or Christian for that matter, about Mary Magdalene and I guarantee practically all will respond that she was a prostitute, a whore, a fallen woman, or the slang, a snake charmer. You see the Catholic Church peddle conspiracy theories, hate speech and total ignorance, and when hatred is given a safe harbour, in the Catholic Church, than it’s given space to fester. Let’s now explain Mary Magdalene, the mistake of identifying her with a repentant sinner actually has a more recent origin, in the Middle Ages. It was the Roman Catholic Church that foster the mistaken idea of the penitent Magdalene. In fact, Mary Magdalene was the primary witness to the fundamental data of the early Christian faith.
No where in the Bible is there a reference to Mary Magdalene as a whore, or for that matter a fallen woman. Yet in the popular mind Mary Magdalene represents the repentant sinner, lifted from the depths of whoredom by her romantic love for Jesus, Catholic proof that even the lowliest can be saved through repentance and devotion. The book of the Gospels present Mary Magdalene as a disciple of Jesus, an eyewitness of His death on the cross, and the first witness of His resurrection. In the four Gospels, she is mentioned 12 times, eleven of which are directly related to Jesus’ Passion and Resurrection, and nowhere can we say that she was a prostitute, as is commonly believed. During the Middle Ages, Mary Magdalene was conflated in western tradition with Mary of Bethany and the unnamed "sinful woman" in Luke 7:36-50, resulting in a widespread but inaccurate belief that Mary Magdalene was a repentant prostitute or promiscuous woman. Part of the reason for the mis-identification of Mary Magdalene as a sinner may derive from the reputation of her birthplace, Magdala, which, by the late first century, was infamous for its inhabitants' alleged vice and licentiousness.
You see, Mary is a traditional Jewish name (Mariam) and Magdalene is a form reflecting the Hebrew original, which means “a tower” (Migdal); referring either to a place with that name or to her character as observed by her community. The association of Mary Magdalene with prostitution is the result of ignorant New Testament interpretations; falsely identifying the actual Mary Magdalene with several other women; at least one of whom was indeed a prostitute. Mary was one of the, if not the most, common Hebrew name at that time. There are a few Mary’s in the Bible, so simply because someone named Mary was a prostitute does not mean that Mary Magdalene was in fact one as well. There is simply no scriptural basis to link these “sinful women” stories to Mary Magdalene, none whatsoever. Have the Catholic Church allowed the chauvinistic hermeneutics of the past to influence our modern interpretation? The simple answer is – YES. Eve, as the first woman in the garden of Eden to spread the news of the evil to humanity, Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane spread the good news that Jesus Christ has risen, and God now was reconciling humanity to Himself.
The Catholic Church deliberated confusions and direct lies about Mary Magdalene was compounded across time as her image was conscripted into one power struggle after another, twisted accordingly, by the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church focused on human sexuality, specially the women, and their determination to control it. The burning of women, was thoroughly orchestrated by the Roman Catholic Church, they couldn’t control so calling them witches was easier to murder them in the great auto-da-fé’s that raging across Europe. Plus the growing power of its all-male Clergy. The great debate of celibacy, the branding of theological diversity as heresy, the sublimations of courtly love, the unleashing of Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. The money machine that was and is the Vatican and the marketing of sainthood, and myths. Mary Magdalene played their role throughout the ages.
So the Irish Catholic Church was not the first to use the name Magdalene Asylum, that distinction goes to London. The first Magdalen institution, Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes, was founded in late 1758 in London by Robert Dingley. The first Magdalene Asylum in Ireland was established in Dublin on Lower Leeson Street by the Church of Ireland, in 1765. But Ireland’s Catholic-run Magdalene Asylums survived the longest. During the great Irish Famine of 1845, four female Catholic religious congregations came to dominate the running of the Magdalene Asylums and formed laundries, to make money, from their free use of captive slaves of women and their children. Once the women and their children entered the Magdalene Asylums they could never leave, they were now slave, owned by the Nun. The Magdalene Asylums now became Laundries run by the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of Charity, Sisters of our Lady of Charity of Refuge, and the Good Shepherd Sisters. All the Religious Orders used, captive and enslaved labour for free. The Magdalene Asylums/ Laundries operated for 231 Years and closed In 1996.
Slavery itself was officially abolition in the British Empire, of which Ireland was then part’, in 1807. It took a further 26 years before the Slave Abolition Act was introduced, which did abolish slavery in the British Empire, Ireland included. But indentured slaves of the Magdalene Laundries, were enslaved women, who generally were made slaves for life and slave status was imposed on their children from birth, which was practiced and enforced by the Irish Catholic Church, and the enablers of Irish Government till 1996.
A Slave;-
The Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann)
Article 4 protects your right not to be held in slavery or servitude, or made to do forced labour--
• Slavery is when someone actually owns you like a piece of property.
• Servitude is similar to slavery - you might live on the person’s premises, work for them and be unable to leave, but they don’t own you.
• Forced labour means you are forced to do work that you have not agreed to, under the threat of punishment.
Let us be very clear, as we now know, The Irish Constitution meant nothing to the Rulers of Ireland, the Irish Catholic Cult. Which had no wish to protect or respect protections in the so called Irish Constitution, after all it meant nothing to them. The slave women and their children had nothing to do with this Constitution, the Cult saw to that. The Irish Catholic Church devised the Constitution, It was suppose to be a democratic constitution, but the Catholic Church had other ideas, to gain complete political power with or without the need of the support of a majority in Ireland or any Political Party, after all it was a given, 98% of the population were Catholic. Slavery flourished under the benevolent guidance of the Irish Catholic Church, the written Irish Constitution was a quaint written document, but it meant nothing to the 100s of thousands of enslaved women and their children, slaving and dying in the religious run gulags, the Cult operated for profit and profit only.
At one time, almost a fifth of the Irish population was in one or another religious run gulag, like the Magdalene Laundries, Hospital Asylums, Industrial Schools, Orphanages. The thousands of slave women and their children also cleaned thousands of Catholic Churches, cleaned and cooked in thousands of Parochial Houses, Priest Seminaries, Thousands of Catholic Controlled Schools, Colleges and Universities, Dozens of Monasteries, all Local Hospitals, All Convents. All the Women and Children were unpaid, and lived as Slaves, many died as Slaves, all were treated as Slaves, even in death, the women and children were dumped into mass graves, and Septic Tanks as slave.
The egregious liars of the Irish Catholic Church now say, that it will no longer require women and children as Slaves or force them to commit to a lifetime of servitude in their Religious Run Institutions from birth. The only other problem will be, what to do about the Irish Catholic Church ’s stranglehold of forced Baptism, money making Holy Communion and the complete and overwhelming control of all Irish schools, that is and will be a stain on a Child’s life forever. Today the mutually incompatible Irish Catholic Church, with an evolving modern secular Ireland, whether the two can still coexist together with a clearly secular Irish society, better educated and more liberal, as against the stagnated and out of touch Clerical Hierarchy of the notoriously corrupt Irish Catholic Church with its horrific legacy, a Cult which was and is now Criminally and Morally Bankrupt. Owen Felix O’Neill
Mention the name Mary Magdalene and most people will free-associate the word “Whore”. Go ahead, please ask any Catholic or Christian for that matter, about Mary Magdalene and I guarantee practically all will respond that she was a prostitute, a whore, a fallen woman, or the slang, a snake charmer. You see the Catholic Church peddle conspiracy theories, hate speech and total ignorance, and when hatred is given a safe harbour, in the Catholic Church, than it’s given space to fester. Let’s now explain Mary Magdalene, the mistake of identifying her with a repentant sinner actually has a more recent origin, in the Middle Ages. It was the Roman Catholic Church that foster the mistaken idea of the penitent Magdalene. In fact, Mary Magdalene was the primary witness to the fundamental data of the early Christian faith.
No where in the Bible is there a reference to Mary Magdalene as a whore, or for that matter a fallen woman. Yet in the popular mind Mary Magdalene represents the repentant sinner, lifted from the depths of whoredom by her romantic love for Jesus, Catholic proof that even the lowliest can be saved through repentance and devotion. The book of the Gospels present Mary Magdalene as a disciple of Jesus, an eyewitness of His death on the cross, and the first witness of His resurrection. In the four Gospels, she is mentioned 12 times, eleven of which are directly related to Jesus’ Passion and Resurrection, and nowhere can we say that she was a prostitute, as is commonly believed. During the Middle Ages, Mary Magdalene was conflated in western tradition with Mary of Bethany and the unnamed "sinful woman" in Luke 7:36-50, resulting in a widespread but inaccurate belief that Mary Magdalene was a repentant prostitute or promiscuous woman. Part of the reason for the mis-identification of Mary Magdalene as a sinner may derive from the reputation of her birthplace, Magdala, which, by the late first century, was infamous for its inhabitants' alleged vice and licentiousness.
You see, Mary is a traditional Jewish name (Mariam) and Magdalene is a form reflecting the Hebrew original, which means “a tower” (Migdal); referring either to a place with that name or to her character as observed by her community. The association of Mary Magdalene with prostitution is the result of ignorant New Testament interpretations; falsely identifying the actual Mary Magdalene with several other women; at least one of whom was indeed a prostitute. Mary was one of the, if not the most, common Hebrew name at that time. There are a few Mary’s in the Bible, so simply because someone named Mary was a prostitute does not mean that Mary Magdalene was in fact one as well. There is simply no scriptural basis to link these “sinful women” stories to Mary Magdalene, none whatsoever. Have the Catholic Church allowed the chauvinistic hermeneutics of the past to influence our modern interpretation? The simple answer is – YES. Eve, as the first woman in the garden of Eden to spread the news of the evil to humanity, Mary Magdalene in the Garden of Gethsemane spread the good news that Jesus Christ has risen, and God now was reconciling humanity to Himself.
The Catholic Church deliberated confusions and direct lies about Mary Magdalene was compounded across time as her image was conscripted into one power struggle after another, twisted accordingly, by the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church focused on human sexuality, specially the women, and their determination to control it. The burning of women, was thoroughly orchestrated by the Roman Catholic Church, they couldn’t control so calling them witches was easier to murder them in the great auto-da-fé’s that raging across Europe. Plus the growing power of its all-male Clergy. The great debate of celibacy, the branding of theological diversity as heresy, the sublimations of courtly love, the unleashing of Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe. The money machine that was and is the Vatican and the marketing of sainthood, and myths. Mary Magdalene played their role throughout the ages.
So the Irish Catholic Church was not the first to use the name Magdalene Asylum, that distinction goes to London. The first Magdalen institution, Magdalen Hospital for the Reception of Penitent Prostitutes, was founded in late 1758 in London by Robert Dingley. The first Magdalene Asylum in Ireland was established in Dublin on Lower Leeson Street by the Church of Ireland, in 1765. But Ireland’s Catholic-run Magdalene Asylums survived the longest. During the great Irish Famine of 1845, four female Catholic religious congregations came to dominate the running of the Magdalene Asylums and formed laundries, to make money, from their free use of captive slaves of women and their children. Once the women and their children entered the Magdalene Asylums they could never leave, they were now slave, owned by the Nun. The Magdalene Asylums now became Laundries run by the Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of Charity, Sisters of our Lady of Charity of Refuge, and the Good Shepherd Sisters. All the Religious Orders used, captive and enslaved labour for free. The Magdalene Asylums/ Laundries operated for 231 Years and closed In 1996.
Slavery itself was officially abolition in the British Empire, of which Ireland was then part’, in 1807. It took a further 26 years before the Slave Abolition Act was introduced, which did abolish slavery in the British Empire, Ireland included. But indentured slaves of the Magdalene Laundries, were enslaved women, who generally were made slaves for life and slave status was imposed on their children from birth, which was practiced and enforced by the Irish Catholic Church, and the enablers of Irish Government till 1996.
A Slave;-
- a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
- A person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation.
- A person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something.
The Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann)
Article 4 protects your right not to be held in slavery or servitude, or made to do forced labour--
• Slavery is when someone actually owns you like a piece of property.
• Servitude is similar to slavery - you might live on the person’s premises, work for them and be unable to leave, but they don’t own you.
• Forced labour means you are forced to do work that you have not agreed to, under the threat of punishment.
Let us be very clear, as we now know, The Irish Constitution meant nothing to the Rulers of Ireland, the Irish Catholic Cult. Which had no wish to protect or respect protections in the so called Irish Constitution, after all it meant nothing to them. The slave women and their children had nothing to do with this Constitution, the Cult saw to that. The Irish Catholic Church devised the Constitution, It was suppose to be a democratic constitution, but the Catholic Church had other ideas, to gain complete political power with or without the need of the support of a majority in Ireland or any Political Party, after all it was a given, 98% of the population were Catholic. Slavery flourished under the benevolent guidance of the Irish Catholic Church, the written Irish Constitution was a quaint written document, but it meant nothing to the 100s of thousands of enslaved women and their children, slaving and dying in the religious run gulags, the Cult operated for profit and profit only.
At one time, almost a fifth of the Irish population was in one or another religious run gulag, like the Magdalene Laundries, Hospital Asylums, Industrial Schools, Orphanages. The thousands of slave women and their children also cleaned thousands of Catholic Churches, cleaned and cooked in thousands of Parochial Houses, Priest Seminaries, Thousands of Catholic Controlled Schools, Colleges and Universities, Dozens of Monasteries, all Local Hospitals, All Convents. All the Women and Children were unpaid, and lived as Slaves, many died as Slaves, all were treated as Slaves, even in death, the women and children were dumped into mass graves, and Septic Tanks as slave.
The egregious liars of the Irish Catholic Church now say, that it will no longer require women and children as Slaves or force them to commit to a lifetime of servitude in their Religious Run Institutions from birth. The only other problem will be, what to do about the Irish Catholic Church ’s stranglehold of forced Baptism, money making Holy Communion and the complete and overwhelming control of all Irish schools, that is and will be a stain on a Child’s life forever. Today the mutually incompatible Irish Catholic Church, with an evolving modern secular Ireland, whether the two can still coexist together with a clearly secular Irish society, better educated and more liberal, as against the stagnated and out of touch Clerical Hierarchy of the notoriously corrupt Irish Catholic Church with its horrific legacy, a Cult which was and is now Criminally and Morally Bankrupt. Owen Felix O’Neill
Eyewitness to History-Slave Trade in Stolen Babies
When a baby was born in a Mother and Baby Home, and the Nuns decide to illegally remove that baby, the poor unwed mother was carefully selected by the Nuns of the Mother and Baby Home before hand, by the colour of unwed mother’s hair, eyes and her age, plus the selected unwed mother would be given extra rations to fatten her up, like a sow really for the cattle mart. The unwed mother’s family was also taken into account, by the enquiring Nuns, specially if the unwed mother was dumped by her family and the unwed mother was far away from family and her home, having no contact with any family members. The normal procedure would be the baby when born would be removed from her mother immediately and taken off the ward and placed in a cot in another room far away from its mother, within a few hours the baby would be spirited away by a Nun to another Convent in a different part of Ireland.
The new baby would be washed and breast- fed by a wet-nurse, the wet nurse would be a woman who worked full time, unpaid, in the chosen Convent, the Nuns would tell her lies that the baby’s Mother died and that this baby needed feeding, this woman would care for this new baby for a few weeks allowing the Nuns time to organise a sale of the baby at an illegal auction. All wet-nurses, were unpaid slaves at many of the Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. The Nuns were grooming the new baby because they knew the baby would command a higher price at the secret auctions, extra food and special clothing would be provided for this new stolen baby, to make them look more healthy. This was done so that the baby would fetch as much money as possible.
In a few weeks the stolen baby would be brought from the convent in Ireland and flown overseas, normally to another holding Convent in Boston, New York City and New Jersey in America, far away from the baby’s mother. The other cruelty would be that the delirium mother would be sudden confused and racked with guilt about the loss of her baby, blaming the baby’s death on herself, encouraged by the conspiratorial Nuns and the Mother and Baby Homes residential priest, that it was God’s punishment, she was a whore, a sinful woman, and her whore of baby died and is now in hell where she would soon be joining her baby, she would be told by both the Nuns and Priest.
In the Convent in either Boston, New York City and New Jersey in American the new baby, now fattened would be raised on a cot so that he or she could be seen by the prospective buyers. Before the bidding began in the American Convent, those prospective buyers that wished to, could come up onto the cot to inspect the new baby closely. The poor baby would have to endure being poked, prodded and forced to open its mouth for the prospective buyers.
Before selling the babies the Nuns did everything they could to improve the price, the baby would received increased food and water rations, and the baby’s skin and hair was rubbed with butter and makeup to give the baby a healthy appearance. The wet-nurse would try to hide any scars or evidence of disease, sometimes using cruel or painful cosmetic techniques.The strongest and healthiest babies were sold by this way,
before a sale, the Superior Nun of the Convent in Boston, New York City or New Jersey would agreed on an equal price for baby often several thousand dollars a piece. Once in a while a particularly good “specimen” of a baby got the Nuns excited, because they knew the specimen baby would get a higher premium.
The auctioneer, the Superior Nun of the Convent in Boston, New York City or New Jersey would decide a price to start the bidding by phone to all the prospective buyers. This would be higher for fit, young babies, especially if the baby had red hair or blond hair, male babies had a higher premium again. Potential buyers would then bid against each other, without realising they were doing so. The person who bid the most would then own that selected baby. The average price was $3,000 to $5,000 plus a, additional yearly fixed price of about $250 per year generally paid to the local Parish Priest in the area of America were the new baby was sold.
Remember over 60,000 Irish babies were illegally sold in this way, in reality the babies were simply kidnapped by the Nuns, The Nuns would also arrange new catholic names and different dates of birth for the babies, because the Nuns didn’t want the unwed mothers finding their babies. The Irish Government conspired with the Holy Nuns to create new Irish passports and other documentations to fit the baby’s new identity. More cruel still, many brothers and sisters were forever broken up in this way, never known they had brothers and sisters.
The stealing of Irish babies proved too dangerous and also very lucrative moneymaker for the Nuns at the Mother and Baby Home in Ireland, illegally selling of Irish babies went on for about 70 years. Something else, some potential adoptee families stipulated on rare occasions, seeking a brother and sister, unit, which were sold together to that family who asked for a special order, willing to pay the Nuns, it was really no problem, the barbarity inherent in one human being's ability to own and sell another, the Holy Nuns had no shame. It was the Irish Catholic Nuns who sold illegal babies for profit and profit only. The heinous crimes of the Irish Nuns who ran the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland and sold stolen babies knew no bounds.
According to both the U.N. and The Council of Europe which estimates that perhaps $42 billion in United States dollars is generated per year in human trafficking. Moreover, human trafficking doesn’t include “human smuggling,” which involves people voluntarily paying others to smuggle them from one location to another. And according to the State Department of the United States of America, as many as 820,000, children are trafficked in the world every year. The Irish Nuns were part of this human trafficking, only of children, the Irish Nuns forced their depravity and quest for riches at the expense of unwed mothers and their children. The downside of selling Irish Babies which was really Child trafficking on a grand scale and which took many forms. I’m sure many adoptive babies went to good homes in America, but its now a known fact that a few stolen Irish babies were trafficked for other purposes like…
1. The trafficking of Irish babies for sexual purposes
2. Adoptive Irish Children were forced to work under dangerous working conditions as domestic slaves for their adoptive families, unpaid.
3. A few of the Adoptive Irish Children ended up been used by sex traffickers for child prostitution, and child pornography, because of their illicit adoption.
4. Perhaps the worst kind of trafficking and it happened, was for the purpose of stealing of the Irish babies organs. After all, once the adoptive baby’s organs are gone, so is the baby, another baby could be bought from the Holy Nuns, this monstrous activity is not just an urban legend, it happened. Remember a baby sold was worth more if its organs could be removed, wealthy clients were willing to pay much larger monies for each child’s transplant of organs, much more lucrative than the $3-$5,000 the Nuns sold the baby for…
Finally welcome to Irish Catholic Church Ethos pertaining to unwed mothers and their children, over the years I met hundreds of Irish Babies illegally adopted, now grown women and men, telling their own horror stories and looking for Irish family connections and an explanation from the Irish Catholic Church, few had a good story to tell about their adoptive experience. I’m certain that members of my own immediate family were illegally sold this way, so far I have been trying to find my Brother Carol Mccarthy, and also other brothers and sisters I may have had, but with the criminal Nuns burning all their documentations to hide their criminal actives, A serious offence, especially one in violation of Christian and Human decency and morality, I sadly may never know the truth …Owen Felix O’Neill
When a baby was born in a Mother and Baby Home, and the Nuns decide to illegally remove that baby, the poor unwed mother was carefully selected by the Nuns of the Mother and Baby Home before hand, by the colour of unwed mother’s hair, eyes and her age, plus the selected unwed mother would be given extra rations to fatten her up, like a sow really for the cattle mart. The unwed mother’s family was also taken into account, by the enquiring Nuns, specially if the unwed mother was dumped by her family and the unwed mother was far away from family and her home, having no contact with any family members. The normal procedure would be the baby when born would be removed from her mother immediately and taken off the ward and placed in a cot in another room far away from its mother, within a few hours the baby would be spirited away by a Nun to another Convent in a different part of Ireland.
The new baby would be washed and breast- fed by a wet-nurse, the wet nurse would be a woman who worked full time, unpaid, in the chosen Convent, the Nuns would tell her lies that the baby’s Mother died and that this baby needed feeding, this woman would care for this new baby for a few weeks allowing the Nuns time to organise a sale of the baby at an illegal auction. All wet-nurses, were unpaid slaves at many of the Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. The Nuns were grooming the new baby because they knew the baby would command a higher price at the secret auctions, extra food and special clothing would be provided for this new stolen baby, to make them look more healthy. This was done so that the baby would fetch as much money as possible.
In a few weeks the stolen baby would be brought from the convent in Ireland and flown overseas, normally to another holding Convent in Boston, New York City and New Jersey in America, far away from the baby’s mother. The other cruelty would be that the delirium mother would be sudden confused and racked with guilt about the loss of her baby, blaming the baby’s death on herself, encouraged by the conspiratorial Nuns and the Mother and Baby Homes residential priest, that it was God’s punishment, she was a whore, a sinful woman, and her whore of baby died and is now in hell where she would soon be joining her baby, she would be told by both the Nuns and Priest.
In the Convent in either Boston, New York City and New Jersey in American the new baby, now fattened would be raised on a cot so that he or she could be seen by the prospective buyers. Before the bidding began in the American Convent, those prospective buyers that wished to, could come up onto the cot to inspect the new baby closely. The poor baby would have to endure being poked, prodded and forced to open its mouth for the prospective buyers.
Before selling the babies the Nuns did everything they could to improve the price, the baby would received increased food and water rations, and the baby’s skin and hair was rubbed with butter and makeup to give the baby a healthy appearance. The wet-nurse would try to hide any scars or evidence of disease, sometimes using cruel or painful cosmetic techniques.The strongest and healthiest babies were sold by this way,
before a sale, the Superior Nun of the Convent in Boston, New York City or New Jersey would agreed on an equal price for baby often several thousand dollars a piece. Once in a while a particularly good “specimen” of a baby got the Nuns excited, because they knew the specimen baby would get a higher premium.
The auctioneer, the Superior Nun of the Convent in Boston, New York City or New Jersey would decide a price to start the bidding by phone to all the prospective buyers. This would be higher for fit, young babies, especially if the baby had red hair or blond hair, male babies had a higher premium again. Potential buyers would then bid against each other, without realising they were doing so. The person who bid the most would then own that selected baby. The average price was $3,000 to $5,000 plus a, additional yearly fixed price of about $250 per year generally paid to the local Parish Priest in the area of America were the new baby was sold.
Remember over 60,000 Irish babies were illegally sold in this way, in reality the babies were simply kidnapped by the Nuns, The Nuns would also arrange new catholic names and different dates of birth for the babies, because the Nuns didn’t want the unwed mothers finding their babies. The Irish Government conspired with the Holy Nuns to create new Irish passports and other documentations to fit the baby’s new identity. More cruel still, many brothers and sisters were forever broken up in this way, never known they had brothers and sisters.
The stealing of Irish babies proved too dangerous and also very lucrative moneymaker for the Nuns at the Mother and Baby Home in Ireland, illegally selling of Irish babies went on for about 70 years. Something else, some potential adoptee families stipulated on rare occasions, seeking a brother and sister, unit, which were sold together to that family who asked for a special order, willing to pay the Nuns, it was really no problem, the barbarity inherent in one human being's ability to own and sell another, the Holy Nuns had no shame. It was the Irish Catholic Nuns who sold illegal babies for profit and profit only. The heinous crimes of the Irish Nuns who ran the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland and sold stolen babies knew no bounds.
According to both the U.N. and The Council of Europe which estimates that perhaps $42 billion in United States dollars is generated per year in human trafficking. Moreover, human trafficking doesn’t include “human smuggling,” which involves people voluntarily paying others to smuggle them from one location to another. And according to the State Department of the United States of America, as many as 820,000, children are trafficked in the world every year. The Irish Nuns were part of this human trafficking, only of children, the Irish Nuns forced their depravity and quest for riches at the expense of unwed mothers and their children. The downside of selling Irish Babies which was really Child trafficking on a grand scale and which took many forms. I’m sure many adoptive babies went to good homes in America, but its now a known fact that a few stolen Irish babies were trafficked for other purposes like…
1. The trafficking of Irish babies for sexual purposes
2. Adoptive Irish Children were forced to work under dangerous working conditions as domestic slaves for their adoptive families, unpaid.
3. A few of the Adoptive Irish Children ended up been used by sex traffickers for child prostitution, and child pornography, because of their illicit adoption.
4. Perhaps the worst kind of trafficking and it happened, was for the purpose of stealing of the Irish babies organs. After all, once the adoptive baby’s organs are gone, so is the baby, another baby could be bought from the Holy Nuns, this monstrous activity is not just an urban legend, it happened. Remember a baby sold was worth more if its organs could be removed, wealthy clients were willing to pay much larger monies for each child’s transplant of organs, much more lucrative than the $3-$5,000 the Nuns sold the baby for…
Finally welcome to Irish Catholic Church Ethos pertaining to unwed mothers and their children, over the years I met hundreds of Irish Babies illegally adopted, now grown women and men, telling their own horror stories and looking for Irish family connections and an explanation from the Irish Catholic Church, few had a good story to tell about their adoptive experience. I’m certain that members of my own immediate family were illegally sold this way, so far I have been trying to find my Brother Carol Mccarthy, and also other brothers and sisters I may have had, but with the criminal Nuns burning all their documentations to hide their criminal actives, A serious offence, especially one in violation of Christian and Human decency and morality, I sadly may never know the truth …Owen Felix O’Neill
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/philomena-author-scandal-irelands-60000-4260186
Philomena author on scandal of Ireland's 60,000 babies 'sold' by nuns to rich American families Journalist and author Martin Sixsmith has travelled again to Ireland and the USA to meet people affected by the forced adoption scandal for a new TV documentary
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/the-baby-black-market-1.1847804
The rules or unwritten rules of buying a Slave Child from Ireland.
1. Why does this boy look tense?
2. Does this boy have any heath problems that are making him or you uncomfortable?
3. Does this boy bite or kick?
4. How is this boy going to behave himself around my children or family?
5. Has this boy ever been injured and if so what is his treatment plan?
6. Has this injury resulted in any chronic health problems?
7. Observe the boy’s movement and attitude when questioned
8. Watch the boy for attentiveness – is he relaxed or tense?
9. In general does the boy enjoy working?
10. Does he willingly leave the home?
11. Will the boy fit in.
12. Does this bed wet the bed?
13. Has this boy been house-trained and toilet trained.
14. Do you use a cane or whip on this boy?
15. How often does this boy get worked and for what general duration?
16. In what discipline(s) does this boy work?
17. How quickly do you feel this boy’s recovers after vigorous work?
18. Have you noticed any breathing difficulties?
19. Has this boy been working before?
20. Does the boy exhibit any weaknesses when working on difficult jobs? Does he listen and follow simple instructions.
21. Speak to the boy as you examine the boy’s head for lice
22. Check his eyes slowly pass a hand by each eye and look for blinking response, does the boy wear spectacles and are they included.
23. Examine the boy’s mouth and teeth for sores or braces, or problem teeth. Ask for dental records.
24. Sniff the boy’s breath for foul odours that could be an indication of infection or illness.
25. Look at the boy’s tongue for signs of past damage and colouration.
26. Check underside of boy’s jaws looking to see that his glands on each side are not swollen or sensitive and check for strong and regular pulse.
27. Does this boy have any blindness or cataract issues?
28. How is his night vision?
29. Has the dentist mentioned any problems with regard to this boy's teeth? Like tooth cavities and decay, does the boy suck his thumb.
30. Examine the boy’s back and bum – run your hand firmly down the back of the boy all the way to his bum, feeling and groping as you go down his back and bum, no resistance or problems to your touch.
31. Examine the boy’s stomach and penis, is the boy sensitive to touch of his penis and is the boy clean.
32. Has the boy attitude?
33. Check that the boy has the right hair colour and angelic features.
34. Is this boy an incarnated angel who is filled with wide-eyed compassion and will to give and receive love.
35. Does this boy have any trouble with lameness?
36. Does this boy have corrective shoe or shoes and if so, why?
37. Does the boy have clubfoot, a deformed foot that is twisted so that his sole cannot be placed flat on the ground and needs special shoes?
38. Look for sign of anger or discomfort like a scowling face, a wrinkle or contract to the boy’s brow, has the boy an expression of anger or disapproval.
39. Is this boy a dwarf boy or an Itinerant, pavee, tinker, or gypsy boy?
40. Watch the boy’s breathing in and out – make certain breathing is regular. If it is irregular there may be an obstruction or chronic respiratory problem with the child.
41. Watch for coordination and willingness. Incoordination may be a sign of neurological problem.
42. Does this boy have heaves or any other respiratory problem, like allergies or bronchitis?
43. Review Health Records – Demand to see the boy’s immunisation records. Ask if health records are kept on the boy and if yes, again demand to see them.
44. Has all the boy’s vaccinates been kept up to date?
45. Has the boy ever had a reaction to a vaccination or medication?
46. When was this boy’s last dental examination? How old is this boy? and does this boy have chronic dental or health or mental issues?
47. By looking at your prospective boy objectively and asking these simple questions, you have a better chance of making the right decision in purchasing this boy. Be sure to ask as many questions as you can. It is best to enlist the aid of your Wife or Mother, if you do not have previous experience in purchasing boys.
48. Does the boy have a family? Brothers and Sisters?
49. Can the buyer, buy more then one child?
50. Finally ask, can I return the boy? If I, the buyer am unhappy with the product.
1. Why does this boy look tense?
2. Does this boy have any heath problems that are making him or you uncomfortable?
3. Does this boy bite or kick?
4. How is this boy going to behave himself around my children or family?
5. Has this boy ever been injured and if so what is his treatment plan?
6. Has this injury resulted in any chronic health problems?
7. Observe the boy’s movement and attitude when questioned
8. Watch the boy for attentiveness – is he relaxed or tense?
9. In general does the boy enjoy working?
10. Does he willingly leave the home?
11. Will the boy fit in.
12. Does this bed wet the bed?
13. Has this boy been house-trained and toilet trained.
14. Do you use a cane or whip on this boy?
15. How often does this boy get worked and for what general duration?
16. In what discipline(s) does this boy work?
17. How quickly do you feel this boy’s recovers after vigorous work?
18. Have you noticed any breathing difficulties?
19. Has this boy been working before?
20. Does the boy exhibit any weaknesses when working on difficult jobs? Does he listen and follow simple instructions.
21. Speak to the boy as you examine the boy’s head for lice
22. Check his eyes slowly pass a hand by each eye and look for blinking response, does the boy wear spectacles and are they included.
23. Examine the boy’s mouth and teeth for sores or braces, or problem teeth. Ask for dental records.
24. Sniff the boy’s breath for foul odours that could be an indication of infection or illness.
25. Look at the boy’s tongue for signs of past damage and colouration.
26. Check underside of boy’s jaws looking to see that his glands on each side are not swollen or sensitive and check for strong and regular pulse.
27. Does this boy have any blindness or cataract issues?
28. How is his night vision?
29. Has the dentist mentioned any problems with regard to this boy's teeth? Like tooth cavities and decay, does the boy suck his thumb.
30. Examine the boy’s back and bum – run your hand firmly down the back of the boy all the way to his bum, feeling and groping as you go down his back and bum, no resistance or problems to your touch.
31. Examine the boy’s stomach and penis, is the boy sensitive to touch of his penis and is the boy clean.
32. Has the boy attitude?
33. Check that the boy has the right hair colour and angelic features.
34. Is this boy an incarnated angel who is filled with wide-eyed compassion and will to give and receive love.
35. Does this boy have any trouble with lameness?
36. Does this boy have corrective shoe or shoes and if so, why?
37. Does the boy have clubfoot, a deformed foot that is twisted so that his sole cannot be placed flat on the ground and needs special shoes?
38. Look for sign of anger or discomfort like a scowling face, a wrinkle or contract to the boy’s brow, has the boy an expression of anger or disapproval.
39. Is this boy a dwarf boy or an Itinerant, pavee, tinker, or gypsy boy?
40. Watch the boy’s breathing in and out – make certain breathing is regular. If it is irregular there may be an obstruction or chronic respiratory problem with the child.
41. Watch for coordination and willingness. Incoordination may be a sign of neurological problem.
42. Does this boy have heaves or any other respiratory problem, like allergies or bronchitis?
43. Review Health Records – Demand to see the boy’s immunisation records. Ask if health records are kept on the boy and if yes, again demand to see them.
44. Has all the boy’s vaccinates been kept up to date?
45. Has the boy ever had a reaction to a vaccination or medication?
46. When was this boy’s last dental examination? How old is this boy? and does this boy have chronic dental or health or mental issues?
47. By looking at your prospective boy objectively and asking these simple questions, you have a better chance of making the right decision in purchasing this boy. Be sure to ask as many questions as you can. It is best to enlist the aid of your Wife or Mother, if you do not have previous experience in purchasing boys.
48. Does the boy have a family? Brothers and Sisters?
49. Can the buyer, buy more then one child?
50. Finally ask, can I return the boy? If I, the buyer am unhappy with the product.
Slavery in Ireland.
Oxford Dictionary;-
A Slave;-
The Irish Catholic Church was glorified for their adherence to a code of honour most closely paralleled by medieval history. The relationship between the Irish Catholic Church and their slaves, the unwed women and their children, provides a glaring example of how passages in the Catholic Bible have been cherry-picked by the Irish Catholic Church and their various Religious Orders to justify all kinds of actions and ideologies, nowhere does the Christian Bible condemn slavery, and the good book even instructs slave holders, the Religious Orders on how they should treat their slaves. I would say that some translations of the Christian Bible use the word “servant” rather than “slave” to, presumably, soften the language so as to not make it seem so arcane and inhumane. Many of the women and their children were in a kind of indentured servitude to the Irish Catholic Church, that these same women would enter into when they became pregnant with no financial support from either their male partner nor family. The women were shackled by vicious cycle of scandals and shame in their perspective communities. Where the master is the Irish Catholic Church, the benevolent priest figure to his grateful flock. What slave really meant in the Bible is central to our understanding of a holy book that claims to be the inspired word of a benevolent god. A god who a) condones human ownership in his book to mankind and b) does not condemn the practice at all seems decidedly malevolent and is depicted exactly as we would expect him to be depicted as if this book was written by a superstitious people in the ancient Middle East.
Slavery was never abolished in the Republic of Ireland, sadly Ireland held thousands of slaves until 1996, in addition, Ireland sold "thousands of children into slavery” the repulsive idea of having to work long and dangerously hard, with little food or water, and all the time without proper remuneration or appreciation. Many other women were also sold into domestic slavery, and their children, separated and illegally sold abroad, mostly into America. The vile practice or system of owning slaves was established by the Irish Catholic Church as going lucrative business, a ruthless opportunity for over 200 years ago, and most if not all the slaves the Irish Catholic Church owned were women and children. These Irish Slaves were housed in peculiar institutions of Irish Catholic Convents and Religious Industrial Schools throughout Ireland, at one time it was estimate over time, that tens of thousands women and children were housed in slave work camps of the Catholic Convents and Religious Industrial Schools dotted throughout Ireland. Irish Catholic Convents and Religious Industrial Schools throughout Ireland, implicit message was that slavery in Ireland was different from the very harsh slave systems existing in other countries and that Irish slavery had no impact on those living in the real Ireland. Their righteous slavery, the religious men and women of the Irish Catholic Church were acting in accordance with the divine will and God’s moral law, and were morally right and justifiable in the eyes of the Roman Mother Catholic Church. Whose duty was to save the women and children, wanton women who behave in a sexually immodest or promiscuous way, by enticing boys and men into wicked, sinful acts. As was explained by a senior Irish Catholic Archbishop, “these whores who used their sexually immodest and promiscuous behaviour on unsuspecting boys and corrupting Catholic men”. In the eyes of the Irish Catholic Church which was obsessed with sex of all kinds, women were viewed as wanton “seductress" and all were whores, promiscuous, immoral, shameless, unchaste, unvirtuous and especially sinful of easy virtue, wanton “seductress”, according to the Archbishop. Sexually immoral and promiscuous women where a great danger to the Irish Catholic Family unit, according to the rules of the Holy Mother Church and their offsprings, their children were the true spawn of the devil.
In reality the Irish People were shackled to a rich vein of Celtic superstitions and religion, a wealth of traditional beliefs and superstitions which have been held by Irish people for thousands of years. That in reality were the few things in their dreary lives that gave them, the Irish people any sort of comfort or meaning whatsoever, and they were literally shackled to that way of life, its folklores and its many strifes. These arcane superstitions and religion, that was ingrained at birth, entrenched in both Irish identity and culture, gave the Irish Catholic Church immense power over their fellow conscious creatures through its doctrines, a set of unshakeable principles laid down by the Irish Catholic Church as incontrovertibly truths, "the dogmas of Catholic faith" societal rules and morality, which the Irish People took in as absolute truths, unalterable facts preached hourly by the robust Irish Clerics, beating daily into their children at their religious madrassas, run exclusively by the Clergy. Irish People, blindly clung to their superstitions and faith through despairing times of immense personal poverty, wretched human suffering and violent social upheavals.
So what is Slavery, in the strictest sense of the term, any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure, (legally recognised by official state laws) form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration. Many scholars now use the term Chattel slavery (personal property) of the owner, like the Irish Catholic Church who bought and sold women and children as commodities. Chattel Slavery refer to this specific sense of legalised, de jure slavery. In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto ("in fact" or "in practice") forced to work against their own will. Scholars also use the more generic terms such as unfree labour or forced labour, to refer to such situations. Many children born in the Irish Mother and Baby Homes became automatic Chattel Slaves from the time of their birth, to single mothers. Most of of the women and their daughters were forced to work in the Magdalene Laundries, while their sons, the boys were forced to work in the Industrial Schools. All the women and their children were Slaves, subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment on a daily basis.
While Irish slavery was unique institutionally and recognised and supported by the Irish Catholic Church, Human Trafficking of Irish Children and Babies were most common during the 1930s, 40s, 50, 60s, and even into the late 70s., it was never outlawed. The most common form of this Chattel slave trade was commonly referred to as domestic servants, women and their children, their daughters as young as five, were used in the Magdalene Laundries, these women and children were kept in captivity, and some times the children were forcefully adopted in which these children were dehumanised as slaves and sex workers. As for the young boys, most were funnelled into slavery, raped and disappeared, brutality through the Irish Catholic Industrial School systems or work camps. In other areas, slavery or the free labour of these women and children continued through practices such as debt bondage to the Irish Catholic Church, or sold into Serfdom to rural Farmers or nearby hotels or great houses as domestic servants, or indentured labourers. Most if not all the women and children weren’t paid, many were both sexual and physically abused.
Forced Labour was used to refer to when an individual, woman or child was forced to work against their own will, under threat of great violence and rape, and other daily punishments and humiliations, but the generic term unfree labour is also used to describe Chattel Slavery, as well as any other situation in which a person is obliged to work against their own will and a person's ability to work productively is under the complete control of another person, say like a Farmer or an institution like the Irish Catholic Church.
Human trafficking primarily involves women and children forced into prostitution or sexual exploitation of both the women and children. As I said in a previous post, over 60,000 vulnerable Irish Children were illegally sold this way by the Irish Catholic Church, into bondage and slavery in America. Many of these abused children that were sold were frequently subjected to every form of coercion, such as physical violence, and brutal rape. All experienced restrictions on their normal childhood activities and movement once adopted by their new American Families, most ended up as both domestic workers and sex slaves. Ireland has a written Constitution, but in reality it never applied to the Irish Catholic Church, after all they, the Irish Catholic Church, wrote most of the Irish Constitution.
As can be seen and read, Article 4 speaks for itself, in a clear concise manner and is a noble effort to protect the unprotected. It’s a shame that Article 4 of the Irish Constitution at the time was never enforced in the slave camps that were both the Magdalene Laundries and the Industrial Schools in Ireland. The Irish Clerics gorged over the written Irish Constitution, they did this because they could and worse still they rampaged over the written Irish Constitution, and better still, the Clerics got away with it.
Furthermore, not to speak in too contemptuous a tone, but, here is what the The Irish Bishops had to say;- “These findings demonstrate how as a Church and as a society we have failed to protect the most vulnerable members of our community. In life and in death, Women and Children should be treated with the utmost care, dignity and respect.”
And now not to be ungracious to The Nuns who ran the Mother and Baby Homes and the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland; - “All Women and Children should be loved unconditionally and treated with equality and dignity.”
The Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann)
Article 4 protects your right not to be held in slavery or servitude, or made to do forced labour
• Slavery is when someone actually owns you like a piece of property.
• Servitude is similar to slavery - you might live on the person’s premises, work for them and be unable to leave, but they don’t own you.
• Forced labour means you are forced to do work that you have not agreed to, under the threat of punishment.
Owen Felix O’Neill
Oxford Dictionary;-
A Slave;-
- a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
- A person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation.
- A person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something.
The Irish Catholic Church was glorified for their adherence to a code of honour most closely paralleled by medieval history. The relationship between the Irish Catholic Church and their slaves, the unwed women and their children, provides a glaring example of how passages in the Catholic Bible have been cherry-picked by the Irish Catholic Church and their various Religious Orders to justify all kinds of actions and ideologies, nowhere does the Christian Bible condemn slavery, and the good book even instructs slave holders, the Religious Orders on how they should treat their slaves. I would say that some translations of the Christian Bible use the word “servant” rather than “slave” to, presumably, soften the language so as to not make it seem so arcane and inhumane. Many of the women and their children were in a kind of indentured servitude to the Irish Catholic Church, that these same women would enter into when they became pregnant with no financial support from either their male partner nor family. The women were shackled by vicious cycle of scandals and shame in their perspective communities. Where the master is the Irish Catholic Church, the benevolent priest figure to his grateful flock. What slave really meant in the Bible is central to our understanding of a holy book that claims to be the inspired word of a benevolent god. A god who a) condones human ownership in his book to mankind and b) does not condemn the practice at all seems decidedly malevolent and is depicted exactly as we would expect him to be depicted as if this book was written by a superstitious people in the ancient Middle East.
Slavery was never abolished in the Republic of Ireland, sadly Ireland held thousands of slaves until 1996, in addition, Ireland sold "thousands of children into slavery” the repulsive idea of having to work long and dangerously hard, with little food or water, and all the time without proper remuneration or appreciation. Many other women were also sold into domestic slavery, and their children, separated and illegally sold abroad, mostly into America. The vile practice or system of owning slaves was established by the Irish Catholic Church as going lucrative business, a ruthless opportunity for over 200 years ago, and most if not all the slaves the Irish Catholic Church owned were women and children. These Irish Slaves were housed in peculiar institutions of Irish Catholic Convents and Religious Industrial Schools throughout Ireland, at one time it was estimate over time, that tens of thousands women and children were housed in slave work camps of the Catholic Convents and Religious Industrial Schools dotted throughout Ireland. Irish Catholic Convents and Religious Industrial Schools throughout Ireland, implicit message was that slavery in Ireland was different from the very harsh slave systems existing in other countries and that Irish slavery had no impact on those living in the real Ireland. Their righteous slavery, the religious men and women of the Irish Catholic Church were acting in accordance with the divine will and God’s moral law, and were morally right and justifiable in the eyes of the Roman Mother Catholic Church. Whose duty was to save the women and children, wanton women who behave in a sexually immodest or promiscuous way, by enticing boys and men into wicked, sinful acts. As was explained by a senior Irish Catholic Archbishop, “these whores who used their sexually immodest and promiscuous behaviour on unsuspecting boys and corrupting Catholic men”. In the eyes of the Irish Catholic Church which was obsessed with sex of all kinds, women were viewed as wanton “seductress" and all were whores, promiscuous, immoral, shameless, unchaste, unvirtuous and especially sinful of easy virtue, wanton “seductress”, according to the Archbishop. Sexually immoral and promiscuous women where a great danger to the Irish Catholic Family unit, according to the rules of the Holy Mother Church and their offsprings, their children were the true spawn of the devil.
In reality the Irish People were shackled to a rich vein of Celtic superstitions and religion, a wealth of traditional beliefs and superstitions which have been held by Irish people for thousands of years. That in reality were the few things in their dreary lives that gave them, the Irish people any sort of comfort or meaning whatsoever, and they were literally shackled to that way of life, its folklores and its many strifes. These arcane superstitions and religion, that was ingrained at birth, entrenched in both Irish identity and culture, gave the Irish Catholic Church immense power over their fellow conscious creatures through its doctrines, a set of unshakeable principles laid down by the Irish Catholic Church as incontrovertibly truths, "the dogmas of Catholic faith" societal rules and morality, which the Irish People took in as absolute truths, unalterable facts preached hourly by the robust Irish Clerics, beating daily into their children at their religious madrassas, run exclusively by the Clergy. Irish People, blindly clung to their superstitions and faith through despairing times of immense personal poverty, wretched human suffering and violent social upheavals.
So what is Slavery, in the strictest sense of the term, any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure, (legally recognised by official state laws) form of property. A slave is unable to withdraw unilaterally from such an arrangement and works without remuneration. Many scholars now use the term Chattel slavery (personal property) of the owner, like the Irish Catholic Church who bought and sold women and children as commodities. Chattel Slavery refer to this specific sense of legalised, de jure slavery. In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto ("in fact" or "in practice") forced to work against their own will. Scholars also use the more generic terms such as unfree labour or forced labour, to refer to such situations. Many children born in the Irish Mother and Baby Homes became automatic Chattel Slaves from the time of their birth, to single mothers. Most of of the women and their daughters were forced to work in the Magdalene Laundries, while their sons, the boys were forced to work in the Industrial Schools. All the women and their children were Slaves, subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment on a daily basis.
While Irish slavery was unique institutionally and recognised and supported by the Irish Catholic Church, Human Trafficking of Irish Children and Babies were most common during the 1930s, 40s, 50, 60s, and even into the late 70s., it was never outlawed. The most common form of this Chattel slave trade was commonly referred to as domestic servants, women and their children, their daughters as young as five, were used in the Magdalene Laundries, these women and children were kept in captivity, and some times the children were forcefully adopted in which these children were dehumanised as slaves and sex workers. As for the young boys, most were funnelled into slavery, raped and disappeared, brutality through the Irish Catholic Industrial School systems or work camps. In other areas, slavery or the free labour of these women and children continued through practices such as debt bondage to the Irish Catholic Church, or sold into Serfdom to rural Farmers or nearby hotels or great houses as domestic servants, or indentured labourers. Most if not all the women and children weren’t paid, many were both sexual and physically abused.
Forced Labour was used to refer to when an individual, woman or child was forced to work against their own will, under threat of great violence and rape, and other daily punishments and humiliations, but the generic term unfree labour is also used to describe Chattel Slavery, as well as any other situation in which a person is obliged to work against their own will and a person's ability to work productively is under the complete control of another person, say like a Farmer or an institution like the Irish Catholic Church.
Human trafficking primarily involves women and children forced into prostitution or sexual exploitation of both the women and children. As I said in a previous post, over 60,000 vulnerable Irish Children were illegally sold this way by the Irish Catholic Church, into bondage and slavery in America. Many of these abused children that were sold were frequently subjected to every form of coercion, such as physical violence, and brutal rape. All experienced restrictions on their normal childhood activities and movement once adopted by their new American Families, most ended up as both domestic workers and sex slaves. Ireland has a written Constitution, but in reality it never applied to the Irish Catholic Church, after all they, the Irish Catholic Church, wrote most of the Irish Constitution.
As can be seen and read, Article 4 speaks for itself, in a clear concise manner and is a noble effort to protect the unprotected. It’s a shame that Article 4 of the Irish Constitution at the time was never enforced in the slave camps that were both the Magdalene Laundries and the Industrial Schools in Ireland. The Irish Clerics gorged over the written Irish Constitution, they did this because they could and worse still they rampaged over the written Irish Constitution, and better still, the Clerics got away with it.
Furthermore, not to speak in too contemptuous a tone, but, here is what the The Irish Bishops had to say;- “These findings demonstrate how as a Church and as a society we have failed to protect the most vulnerable members of our community. In life and in death, Women and Children should be treated with the utmost care, dignity and respect.”
And now not to be ungracious to The Nuns who ran the Mother and Baby Homes and the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland; - “All Women and Children should be loved unconditionally and treated with equality and dignity.”
The Irish Constitution (Bunreacht na hÉireann)
Article 4 protects your right not to be held in slavery or servitude, or made to do forced labour
• Slavery is when someone actually owns you like a piece of property.
• Servitude is similar to slavery - you might live on the person’s premises, work for them and be unable to leave, but they don’t own you.
• Forced labour means you are forced to do work that you have not agreed to, under the threat of punishment.
Owen Felix O’Neill