Church and Estates;- Religious wealth revealed as the Irish Catholic Church has assets worth over €12 billion at a very conservative estimate.
The Catholic Church in Ireland owns more than 10,700 properties across the country and controls nearly 6,700 religious and educational sites.The Irish Catholic Church is the biggest corporation in Ireland, and all tax-free. The Irish Catholic Church, have a branch office in every neighbourhood, city, town, village, and hamlet in Ireland.
1. 3,000 Primary Schools;- owned by Dioceses or Parishes €3.95bn.
2. The Brothers of Charity;- have €160m worth of buildings used to provide services to people with intellectual disabilities.
3. The Christian Brothers;- transferred school property valued at €430m to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust back in 2008.
4. The Sisters of Charity;- which owns the St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin including the site where the new National Maternity Hospital is to be built, have €64m of school assets and €85m of services properties. The Congregation owns 10 companies Hospitals, Hospice, Day Care and Convalescent Facilities, Residential Care and Post-Adoption Services”.
5. The Sisters of Mercy;- have €412m worth of secondary schools that were to be transferred to the Ceist/Educena trust along with €256m of Primary Schools plus €59m relating to a Hospital in use. In addition, it owns 13 bodies and subsidiaries 4 Hospitals;- The Mater Misericordiae;- Temple Street Children’s Hospital;- The National Orthopaedic and Mercy University Hospital (Cork) ;- Income comes to €645m.
6. The Order of St John of God;- has €470.5m of property used for services, “a large proportion of which are supported by the HSE and other State organisations”. Include campuses of service properties (€206m), a Hospital (€98m), Clinics (€30m), Day Centres (€27m), Schools (€20m), a Nursing Home (€12m).
7. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul;- have €144m worth of buildings in use for the congregation’s services, including services for people with an intellectual disability, child and family services and community services. And there are €42m worth of residences in local communities used for persons with an Intellectual Disability.
8. The Daughters of the Heart of Mary;- have a €4.5m “fully functioning school”.
9. The De la Salle Brothers have €9.8m of school buildings and a €700,000 site designated for another.
10. The Good Shepherd Sisters;- have €10.7m worth of property in use for services that include Sheltered Accommodation and Day-Care.
11. The Presentation Brothers;- have €21m worth of schools and another €6.3m in playing fields.
12. The Presentation Sisters;- own €218m worth of Schools and €11m of Nursing Homes. In addition, the congregation has transferred its 36 secondary schools €98m.
13. The Rosminians;- have a €5.8m centre in use as a Ministry Property, which was mainly for visually impaired children, as well as €2.2m of residences in use by the centre for the visually impaired and a €2.5m site on which a functioning school is located.
14. The Sisters of Nazareth own €18.1m of Nursing Homes
15. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity;- have Nursing Homes worth €19.8m and Residential Hostels valued at €6.7m.
15. The Sisters of St Louis;- have assets valued at €7m in relation to a School, €6.7m regarding a mixed-use complex, including a School and Nursing Homes, plus a €200,000 site for a School.
16. The Bons Secours Sisters;- have assets in €1 Billion in Ireland, 2017 €263M.-- Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Outreach Clinics, Property…
17. Catholic Churches in Ireland;- 3,861…value €2Billion
18. Priests Residences, Houses;- 5,456…value €1Billion
19. Bishop’s Palaces;- 28 …value €350M
20. Convents in Ireland;- 215…value €750M
21. Church Land in Ireland;- Over 1 million Acres, over €4Billion
22. Catholic Churches Art and Libraries, Relics and Precious Objects, Tapestries;- over €1Billion
23. Furniture and Carpets and Fittings;- over €350M
24. Precious Stones and Jewellery, Chalices, Gold and Sliver Plates;- over €1Billion
25. Bank Deposits, Cash-Bonds-Shares;- over €3Billion
Please remember that over 77% of the Irish Catholic Church’s Wealth was made from the slave workers, women and children of the Religious run Gulags, of the Magdalene Laundries, Industrial Schools and Orphanages, Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. In which over 200 Thousand women and children were enslaved. As slaves of the Irish Catholic Church they were never paid.
26. The Magdalene Laundries;- 11/12 Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, over €385M was made in their lifetime;- Today’s money about €1Billion. All the Magdalene Laundries had Government Contracts and private Business Contracts.
27. The Industrial Schools;- 127 (50 Ryan Report Investigated) Industrial Schools in Ireland. All were run for profit with free labour, 100’s of thousands of children worked as slaves. Making Furniture, Shoes, Tailoring, Cleaning Private Residences and Hotels, selling food products, produced from the Farms attached to most if not all Industrial Schools. Children working on both Industrial School and Rural Farms as slaves, but big profits for the Industrial Schools run by the Religious Orders. Probably as a conservative estimate €450M.. today’s money over €1Billion and a Half.
28. Mother and Baby Homes;- The Terms of Reference specified that only 14 named Mother and Baby Homes were to be included within the scope of the investigation.(over 200 Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland) €100 Million was made through the Drug Companies and their illegal Drug Experiments. And Millions more was made by the Nuns, by selling the dead babies and children’s bodies back to the Drug Companies when the illegal Drug Experiments failed. There are two types of money here…Also impossible because the Drug Companies gained from their illegal Drug Experiments, and future drug sales world-wide certainly over €100s of Millions and the Nuns, selling bodies and taking illegal Drug Experiments money, certainly over €100s of Millions..But one of the biggest profits was the selling of Children and Babies, it is estimated that over €100M a year was made in this racket. The Mother and Baby Homes were very profitable well over €2Billions in today money.
29. Orphanages;- Even Orphanages made money, the selling of babies and children very lucrative, and also was illegal Drug Experiments. Certainly over €200M todays money over €1Billion
THE Catholic Church has assets valued at almost €4billion, click below on the link
https://www.thesun.ie/news/948902/religious-wealth-revealed-as-catholic-church-has-assets-worth-almost-e4-billion/
How much are Sisters of Bon Secours worth in Ireland. ( The Order of Nuns that ran Tuam's Mother and Baby Home)
Irish Catholic Church and Religious Organisations are generally exempt from income tax and other tax breaks, receiving favourable treatment under Irish tax law, a law they themselves wrote.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/order-of-nuns-behind-tuam-home-runs-private-hospital-group-1.3000231
The group had income of €230 million in 2015, and total equity at year’s end of €132 million. Among its loans was a €12.4 million it had from Bon Secours Sisters Ireland and a note to the accounts says Bon Secours Trustees holds a charge of the group’s property in respect of the loan.
Bon Secours Trustee Unlimited Company holds property in trust for the Bons Secours Sisters of Paris, in Ireland, according to its company filings. It does not give a value for this property. There are 7 Directors on the company’s board, all Sisters. Click link below..
http://www.top1000.ie/bon-secours
The Bon Secours Health System is the largest private healthcare provider in Ireland. It has hospitals in the country located in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Tralee and the Mount Desert Care Village, Cork. All of the hospitals are accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI) and have a total complement of more than 800 beds. The Bon Secours group of hospitals provides full cover to all health insurance companies such as VHI, Quinn and Aviva as well as providing a substantial service to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. The Bon Secours Health System headquarters are located at College Road, Cork.
Financial Data;-
Dublin City;-
H.Q.
Bon Secours Group Office,
7 Riverwalk, Citywest,
Dublin 24
D24 H2CE
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
Glasnevin Hill, Glasnevin,
Dublin 9,
D09 YN97
Cork City ;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
College Rd,
Cork.
T12 DV56
Bon Secours Care Village,
Mount Desert Lee Road,
Cork
T23 D30F
Tralee;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System
Strand Street, Tralee,
Co. Kerry.
V92 P663
Limerick;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
Barringtons, George’s Quay,
Limerick
V94 HE2T
Galway;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
Renamore,
Co. Galway
H91 KC7H
Cavan;-
Bon Secours Health System,
Anjali Private Clinic,
Farnham Road,
Co. Cavan.
H12 F5W8
Bon Secours
Provincial House
College Road,
City of Cork.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/private-hospital-records-fall-in-patients-as-state-body-makes-fewer-referrals-1.3598529
The group has hospitals in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Tralee and more recently Limerick following its €14.6 million acquisition of Barrington’s Hospital in 2017. It also has an “elderly care village” in Cork.
Staff costs at the group rose by €12.1 million to €136.6 million in the year while the board of directors and management team of 19 people received compensation of €2.5 million.
Loan facilities
At the balance sheet date, Bon Secours had drawn down loan facilities from AIBank of €26 million while it also owed Bon Secours Sisters Ireland €3.95 million for leases on buildings in its estate.
The company, which employs over 3,000 people alongside 450 medical consultants, recorded cash in the bank of €8.3 million, considerably lower than the €22.5 million a year previous as it continues its investment programme due to complete in 2020.
That programme is focusing on modernising and expanding facilities and upgrading technology infrastructure. Last year Bon Secours began construction of a €77 expansion of clinical facilities in its Cork Hospital which will raise the number of hospital beds it has to 400. That work is due to be complete in 2019.
It also carried work on new operating theatres and consultant suites in Tralee, a new endoscopy unit in Glasnevin, a new catheterisation lab in Galway and a 33 bed expansion of its elderly care facility in Cork.
The Religious Orders that ran the Religious Institutions.
1. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy who ran 26 industrial schools including The Magdalene Laundries
2. The Christian Brothers the largest provider of residential care for boys, who ran the Industrial Schools and Farms
3. The Presentation Brothers who also ran Industrial Schools
4. The Institute of Charity, known as the Rosminians who ran reformatory schools
5. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul ran 26 Orphanages and a few Mother and Baby Homes and Industrial Schools for Girls
6. The Good Shepherd Sisters who ran 4 Industrial Schools for Girls and a few Magdalene Laundries
7. The Oblates Fathers of Mary Immaculate ran the worst Industrial School in Ireland, Daingean Reformatory School
8. The Hospitaller Order of St John of God, ran residential schools for children with learning disabilities
9. The Religious Sisters of Charity ran five Industrial Schools, for boys and girls under the age of 10
10. The De La Salle Brothers who ran a few residential homes
11. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge ran an IndustrialSchool and a Reformatory School
12. The Sisters of St Clare ran an industrial school in Cavan and an Orphanage which burned to the ground, The good Sisters locked the children into the burning building
13. The Sisters of St Louis ran St Martha’s Industrial School and St Joseph’s Orphanage
14. The Presentation Sisters ran an Industrial School and Industrial School. The Dominican Fathers ran Homes for Boys
15. The Daughters of the Heart of Mary ran Orphanages
16. The Brothers of Charity ran two schools for children with learning disabilities
17. The Sisters of Nazareth ran residential homes for children
18. The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours, ran Mother and Baby Homes, Hospitals
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/DACOI%20Part%201.pdf/Files/DACOI%20Part%201.pdf
Over the period from 1936 to 1970, a total of 170,000 children and young persons entered the gates of the 50 or so industrial schools. List of 127 industrial schools & Orphanages in Ireland, all ran by the Religious Orders.
1. An Griana´n Training Centre, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9
2. Artane Industrial School for Senior Boys, Dublin 5
3. Baltimore Fishery School for Senior Boys, Baltimore, Co. Cork
4. Benada Abbey Industrial School for Girls, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
5. Carriglea Park Industrial School for Senior Boys, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
6. Cottage Home, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
7. Don Bosco House, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
8. Family Group Home, Geevagh, Co. Sligo
9. Family Group Home, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
10. Family Group Home, Wexford
11. Kirwan House, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
12. Madonna House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
13. Madonna House, Merrion Road, Dublin 4
14. Martanna House Hostel, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9
15. Miss Carr’s Children’s Home, 5 Northbrook Road, Dublin 6
16. Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, Moate, Co. Westmeath
Nazareth House, Sligo
17. Orphanage Schools, Convent of Mercy, Kells, Co. Meath
18. Our Boy’s Home, 95 Monkstown Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
19. Our Lady of Mercy Industrial School for Girls, Kinsale, Co. Cork
20. Our Lady of Succour Industrial School, Newtownforbes, Co. Longford
21. Our Lady’s Industrial School for Girls, Ennis, Co. Clare
22. Pembrook Alms (Nazareth House) Industrial School for Girls, Tralee, Co. Kerry
23. CPI Marino Special School, Bray, Co. Wicklow
24. Cork University Hospital School
25. Harcourt Street Hospital, Dublin 2
26. Holy Family School for Moderate Learning Disability, Charleville, Co. Cork
27. Our Lady of Good Counsel, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
28. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
29. Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12
30 Sacred Heart Home, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
31. School of the Divine Child, Lavanagh, Ballintemple, Cork
32. School of the Holy Spirit, Seville Lodge, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
33. Scoil Ard Mhuire, Lusk, Co Dublin
34. Scoil Eanna, School of the Angels, Montenotte, Cork
35. Scoil Triest, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
36. St. Martin’s Orphanage, Waterford
37. St. Clare’s Orphanage, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6
38. St. David’s, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
39. St. Gabriel’s School, Curraheen Road, Cork
40. St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
41. St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
42. St. Joseph’s Orthapaedic Hospital for Children, Coole, Co. Westmeath
43. St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Impaired, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
44. St. Kevin’s Reformatory, Glencree, Co. Wicklow
45. St. Martha’s Industrial School, Monaghan
46. St. Martha’s Industrial School, Merrion, Dublin 4
47. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Baldoyle, Dublin 13
48. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Dublin 11
49. St. Mary’s School for Visually Impaired Girls, Merrion, Dublin
50. St. Vincent’s Centre for Persons with Intellectual Disability, Lisnagry, Limerick
51. St. Vincent’s Orphanage, North William St, Dublin 9
52. St. Aidan’s Industrial School for Girls, Newross, Co. Wexford
53. St. Aloysius’ Industrial School for Girls, Clonakilty, Co. Cork
54. St. Ann’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Renmore, Lenaboy, Co. Galway
55. St. Anne’s Industrial School for Girls, Booterstown, Co. Dublin
56. St. Anne’s Reformatory School for Girls, Kilmacud, Co. Dublin
57. St. Anne’s, Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
58. St. Augustine’s Industrial School for Girls, Templemore, Co. Tipperary
59. St. Augustine’s, Obelisk Park, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
60. St. Bernadette’s, Bonnington, Montenotte, Cork
61. St. Bernard’s Industrial School for Girls, Fethard, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
62. St. Bridgid’s Industrial School for Girls, Loughrea, Co. Galway
63. St. Cecilia’s, Cregg House, Sligo
64. St. Clare’s Orphanage, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6
65. St. Coleman’s Industrial School for Girls, Cobh/Rushbrook, Co. Cork
66. St. Columba’s Industrial School for Girls, Westport, Co. Mayo
67. St. Conleth’s Reformatory School for Boys, Daingean, Co. Offaly
68. St. Dominick’s Industrial School for Girls, Waterford
69. St. Finbarr’s Industrial School for Girls, Sundays Well, Marymount, Cork
70. St. Francis Xavier’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon
71. St. Francis’ & St Mary of the Angels, Beaufort, Killarney, Co. Kerry
72. St. Francis’ Industrial School for Girls, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
73. St. George’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
74. St. John’s Industrial School for Girls, Birr, Co. Offaly
75. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Passage West, Co. Cork
76. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Tralee, Co. Kerry
77. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
78. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Clifden, Co. Galway
79. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Liosomoine, Killarney, Co. Kerry
80. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Cavan
81. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Dundalk, Co. Louth
82. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Kilkenny
83. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Mallow, Co. Cork
84. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Summerhill, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
85. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Whitehall, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
86. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Ferryhouse, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
87. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Glin, Co. Limerick
88. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Greenmount, Cork
89. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Letterfrack, Co. Galway
90. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Salthill, Co. Galway
91. St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire
92. St. Joseph’s Reformatory School for Girls, Limerick
93. St. Joseph’s School for Hearing Impaired Boys, Cabra, Dublin 7
94. St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Handicapped, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
95. St. Kyran’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
96. St. Laurence’s Industrial School for Girls, Sligo
97. St. Laurence’s Industrial School, Finglas, Dublin 11
98. St. Martha’s Industrial School for Girls, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
99. St. Mary’s Industrial School, Lakelands, Sandymount, Dublin 4
100. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Baldoyle, Dublin 13
101. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, Dublin 11 Sch.
102. St. Mary’s School for Hearing Impaired Girls, Cabra, Dublin 7
103. St. Mary’s, Delvin, Co. Westmeath
104. St. Mary’s, Drumcar, Dunleer, Co. Louth
105. St. Mary’s, Rochestown, Cork
106. St. Michael’s Industrial School for Girls, Wexford
107. St. Michael’s Industrial School for Junior boys, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
108. St. Michael’s, Glenmaroon, Chapelizod, Dublin 20
109. St. Mura’s Orphanage, Fahan, Co. Donegal
110. St. Patrick’s Industrial School for Boys, Upton, Cork
111. St. Patrick’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Kilkenny
112. St. Paul’s Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9
113. St. Paul’s, Montenotte, Cork
114. St. Saviour’s Orphanage, Lr. Dominick Street, Dublin 1
115. St. Vincent’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Drogheda, Co. Louth
116. St. Vincent’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
117. St. Vincent’s Industrial School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin 8
118. St. Vincent’s Orphanage, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
119. St. Vincent’s, Navan Road, Dublin 7
120. Stewart’s Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20
121. Tabor House, Dublin
122. Temple Street Hospital, Dublin 1
123. The Bird’s Nest Home, 19 York Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
124. The Los Angeles Homes, Dublin
125. The O’Brien Institute, Malahide Road, Dublin
126. Trudder House, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
127. Warrenstown House, Corduff Road, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
The above list contains no Magdalen Asylums.
List of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland
(There were a few more Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, to be added to the list as information comes in)
http://jfmresearch.com/home/preserving-magdalene-history/high-park/
1. High Park Convent, Drumcondra Dublin
2. Sisters of Mercy Laundry, Galway
3. Bethany Home, Laundry Rathgar, Dublin. Closed in 1972. (Protestant-run)
4. Ballsbridge Terrace Laundry, Dublin. (Protestant-run)
5. Dun Laoghaire Magdalene Laundry Dublin
6. Donnybrook Laundry, Dublin
7. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin;- Close 1996 Gloucester Street laundry (Gloucester Street Laundry)
8. Good Shepherd Laundry, Sunday Wells, Cork
9. Good Shepherd Laundry, Waterford City. Closed in 1996
10. Good Shepherd Laundry, New Ross, Wexford
11. Good Shepherd Laundry, Pennywell Road Limerick
12. St. Joseph’s Orphanage & Laundry Cavan Town.
13. The Ulster Magdalene Asylum, 1839 at Donegall Pass, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Closed 1966 (Protestant-run)
14. The Good Shepherd Laundry on Belfast's Ormeau Road. Closed 1977. Northern Ireland
15. The Presbyterian Church ran the Ulster Female Penitentiary & Laundry. Northern Ireland
16. Good Shepherd Laundry, Derry, Northern Ireland
17. Good Shepherd Laundry Newry, Northern Ireland. The Marian Vale Mother and Baby Home. The Good Shepherd’s Sisters ran 2 Laundries in Newry.
http://jfmresearch.com/home/magdalene-names-project/
A figure of 170,000 children passing through the industrial schools between 1936 and 1970 is correct.
Many of the statistics supplied in the Ryan Report were provided by Eoin O'Sullivan, Lecturer in Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin. Eoin is author of "Child Welfare in Ireland, 1750-1995: A History of the Present" and co-authored "Suffer the little Children" with Mary Raftery the blurb for which states "Between 1868 and 1969, more than 100,000 Irish children were taken from their families by the state and placed in so-called industrial schools run by various orders of the Catholic Church".
Over the period from 1936 to 1970, a total of 170,000 children and young persons entered the gates of the 127 or so industrial schools in Ireland
The Christian Brothers are on record as stating 20,000 children passed through the industrial schools under their management since 1922 and the Christian Brothers ran most of the boys institutions.
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 4 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
The Catholic Church in Ireland owns more than 10,700 properties across the country and controls nearly 6,700 religious and educational sites.The Irish Catholic Church is the biggest corporation in Ireland, and all tax-free. The Irish Catholic Church, have a branch office in every neighbourhood, city, town, village, and hamlet in Ireland.
1. 3,000 Primary Schools;- owned by Dioceses or Parishes €3.95bn.
2. The Brothers of Charity;- have €160m worth of buildings used to provide services to people with intellectual disabilities.
3. The Christian Brothers;- transferred school property valued at €430m to the Edmund Rice Schools Trust back in 2008.
4. The Sisters of Charity;- which owns the St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin including the site where the new National Maternity Hospital is to be built, have €64m of school assets and €85m of services properties. The Congregation owns 10 companies Hospitals, Hospice, Day Care and Convalescent Facilities, Residential Care and Post-Adoption Services”.
5. The Sisters of Mercy;- have €412m worth of secondary schools that were to be transferred to the Ceist/Educena trust along with €256m of Primary Schools plus €59m relating to a Hospital in use. In addition, it owns 13 bodies and subsidiaries 4 Hospitals;- The Mater Misericordiae;- Temple Street Children’s Hospital;- The National Orthopaedic and Mercy University Hospital (Cork) ;- Income comes to €645m.
6. The Order of St John of God;- has €470.5m of property used for services, “a large proportion of which are supported by the HSE and other State organisations”. Include campuses of service properties (€206m), a Hospital (€98m), Clinics (€30m), Day Centres (€27m), Schools (€20m), a Nursing Home (€12m).
7. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul;- have €144m worth of buildings in use for the congregation’s services, including services for people with an intellectual disability, child and family services and community services. And there are €42m worth of residences in local communities used for persons with an Intellectual Disability.
8. The Daughters of the Heart of Mary;- have a €4.5m “fully functioning school”.
9. The De la Salle Brothers have €9.8m of school buildings and a €700,000 site designated for another.
10. The Good Shepherd Sisters;- have €10.7m worth of property in use for services that include Sheltered Accommodation and Day-Care.
11. The Presentation Brothers;- have €21m worth of schools and another €6.3m in playing fields.
12. The Presentation Sisters;- own €218m worth of Schools and €11m of Nursing Homes. In addition, the congregation has transferred its 36 secondary schools €98m.
13. The Rosminians;- have a €5.8m centre in use as a Ministry Property, which was mainly for visually impaired children, as well as €2.2m of residences in use by the centre for the visually impaired and a €2.5m site on which a functioning school is located.
14. The Sisters of Nazareth own €18.1m of Nursing Homes
15. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity;- have Nursing Homes worth €19.8m and Residential Hostels valued at €6.7m.
15. The Sisters of St Louis;- have assets valued at €7m in relation to a School, €6.7m regarding a mixed-use complex, including a School and Nursing Homes, plus a €200,000 site for a School.
16. The Bons Secours Sisters;- have assets in €1 Billion in Ireland, 2017 €263M.-- Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Outreach Clinics, Property…
17. Catholic Churches in Ireland;- 3,861…value €2Billion
18. Priests Residences, Houses;- 5,456…value €1Billion
19. Bishop’s Palaces;- 28 …value €350M
20. Convents in Ireland;- 215…value €750M
21. Church Land in Ireland;- Over 1 million Acres, over €4Billion
22. Catholic Churches Art and Libraries, Relics and Precious Objects, Tapestries;- over €1Billion
23. Furniture and Carpets and Fittings;- over €350M
24. Precious Stones and Jewellery, Chalices, Gold and Sliver Plates;- over €1Billion
25. Bank Deposits, Cash-Bonds-Shares;- over €3Billion
Please remember that over 77% of the Irish Catholic Church’s Wealth was made from the slave workers, women and children of the Religious run Gulags, of the Magdalene Laundries, Industrial Schools and Orphanages, Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. In which over 200 Thousand women and children were enslaved. As slaves of the Irish Catholic Church they were never paid.
26. The Magdalene Laundries;- 11/12 Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, over €385M was made in their lifetime;- Today’s money about €1Billion. All the Magdalene Laundries had Government Contracts and private Business Contracts.
27. The Industrial Schools;- 127 (50 Ryan Report Investigated) Industrial Schools in Ireland. All were run for profit with free labour, 100’s of thousands of children worked as slaves. Making Furniture, Shoes, Tailoring, Cleaning Private Residences and Hotels, selling food products, produced from the Farms attached to most if not all Industrial Schools. Children working on both Industrial School and Rural Farms as slaves, but big profits for the Industrial Schools run by the Religious Orders. Probably as a conservative estimate €450M.. today’s money over €1Billion and a Half.
28. Mother and Baby Homes;- The Terms of Reference specified that only 14 named Mother and Baby Homes were to be included within the scope of the investigation.(over 200 Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland) €100 Million was made through the Drug Companies and their illegal Drug Experiments. And Millions more was made by the Nuns, by selling the dead babies and children’s bodies back to the Drug Companies when the illegal Drug Experiments failed. There are two types of money here…Also impossible because the Drug Companies gained from their illegal Drug Experiments, and future drug sales world-wide certainly over €100s of Millions and the Nuns, selling bodies and taking illegal Drug Experiments money, certainly over €100s of Millions..But one of the biggest profits was the selling of Children and Babies, it is estimated that over €100M a year was made in this racket. The Mother and Baby Homes were very profitable well over €2Billions in today money.
29. Orphanages;- Even Orphanages made money, the selling of babies and children very lucrative, and also was illegal Drug Experiments. Certainly over €200M todays money over €1Billion
THE Catholic Church has assets valued at almost €4billion, click below on the link
https://www.thesun.ie/news/948902/religious-wealth-revealed-as-catholic-church-has-assets-worth-almost-e4-billion/
How much are Sisters of Bon Secours worth in Ireland. ( The Order of Nuns that ran Tuam's Mother and Baby Home)
Irish Catholic Church and Religious Organisations are generally exempt from income tax and other tax breaks, receiving favourable treatment under Irish tax law, a law they themselves wrote.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/order-of-nuns-behind-tuam-home-runs-private-hospital-group-1.3000231
The group had income of €230 million in 2015, and total equity at year’s end of €132 million. Among its loans was a €12.4 million it had from Bon Secours Sisters Ireland and a note to the accounts says Bon Secours Trustees holds a charge of the group’s property in respect of the loan.
Bon Secours Trustee Unlimited Company holds property in trust for the Bons Secours Sisters of Paris, in Ireland, according to its company filings. It does not give a value for this property. There are 7 Directors on the company’s board, all Sisters. Click link below..
http://www.top1000.ie/bon-secours
The Bon Secours Health System is the largest private healthcare provider in Ireland. It has hospitals in the country located in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Tralee and the Mount Desert Care Village, Cork. All of the hospitals are accredited by Joint Commission International (JCI) and have a total complement of more than 800 beds. The Bon Secours group of hospitals provides full cover to all health insurance companies such as VHI, Quinn and Aviva as well as providing a substantial service to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. The Bon Secours Health System headquarters are located at College Road, Cork.
Financial Data;-
- 31st Dec 17 Source: CRO
- €263.6 million turnover
- 3,015 employees
- 31st Dec 16 Source: CRO
- €243.2 million turnover
- 2,747 employees
Dublin City;-
H.Q.
Bon Secours Group Office,
7 Riverwalk, Citywest,
Dublin 24
D24 H2CE
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
Glasnevin Hill, Glasnevin,
Dublin 9,
D09 YN97
Cork City ;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
College Rd,
Cork.
T12 DV56
Bon Secours Care Village,
Mount Desert Lee Road,
Cork
T23 D30F
Tralee;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System
Strand Street, Tralee,
Co. Kerry.
V92 P663
Limerick;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
Barringtons, George’s Quay,
Limerick
V94 HE2T
Galway;-
Hospital
Bon Secours Health System,
Renamore,
Co. Galway
H91 KC7H
Cavan;-
Bon Secours Health System,
Anjali Private Clinic,
Farnham Road,
Co. Cavan.
H12 F5W8
Bon Secours
Provincial House
College Road,
City of Cork.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/private-hospital-records-fall-in-patients-as-state-body-makes-fewer-referrals-1.3598529
The group has hospitals in Cork, Dublin, Galway, Tralee and more recently Limerick following its €14.6 million acquisition of Barrington’s Hospital in 2017. It also has an “elderly care village” in Cork.
Staff costs at the group rose by €12.1 million to €136.6 million in the year while the board of directors and management team of 19 people received compensation of €2.5 million.
Loan facilities
At the balance sheet date, Bon Secours had drawn down loan facilities from AIBank of €26 million while it also owed Bon Secours Sisters Ireland €3.95 million for leases on buildings in its estate.
The company, which employs over 3,000 people alongside 450 medical consultants, recorded cash in the bank of €8.3 million, considerably lower than the €22.5 million a year previous as it continues its investment programme due to complete in 2020.
That programme is focusing on modernising and expanding facilities and upgrading technology infrastructure. Last year Bon Secours began construction of a €77 expansion of clinical facilities in its Cork Hospital which will raise the number of hospital beds it has to 400. That work is due to be complete in 2019.
It also carried work on new operating theatres and consultant suites in Tralee, a new endoscopy unit in Glasnevin, a new catheterisation lab in Galway and a 33 bed expansion of its elderly care facility in Cork.
The Religious Orders that ran the Religious Institutions.
1. The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy who ran 26 industrial schools including The Magdalene Laundries
2. The Christian Brothers the largest provider of residential care for boys, who ran the Industrial Schools and Farms
3. The Presentation Brothers who also ran Industrial Schools
4. The Institute of Charity, known as the Rosminians who ran reformatory schools
5. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul ran 26 Orphanages and a few Mother and Baby Homes and Industrial Schools for Girls
6. The Good Shepherd Sisters who ran 4 Industrial Schools for Girls and a few Magdalene Laundries
7. The Oblates Fathers of Mary Immaculate ran the worst Industrial School in Ireland, Daingean Reformatory School
8. The Hospitaller Order of St John of God, ran residential schools for children with learning disabilities
9. The Religious Sisters of Charity ran five Industrial Schools, for boys and girls under the age of 10
10. The De La Salle Brothers who ran a few residential homes
11. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge ran an IndustrialSchool and a Reformatory School
12. The Sisters of St Clare ran an industrial school in Cavan and an Orphanage which burned to the ground, The good Sisters locked the children into the burning building
13. The Sisters of St Louis ran St Martha’s Industrial School and St Joseph’s Orphanage
14. The Presentation Sisters ran an Industrial School and Industrial School. The Dominican Fathers ran Homes for Boys
15. The Daughters of the Heart of Mary ran Orphanages
16. The Brothers of Charity ran two schools for children with learning disabilities
17. The Sisters of Nazareth ran residential homes for children
18. The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours, ran Mother and Baby Homes, Hospitals
http://www.justice.ie/en/JELR/DACOI%20Part%201.pdf/Files/DACOI%20Part%201.pdf
Over the period from 1936 to 1970, a total of 170,000 children and young persons entered the gates of the 50 or so industrial schools. List of 127 industrial schools & Orphanages in Ireland, all ran by the Religious Orders.
1. An Griana´n Training Centre, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9
2. Artane Industrial School for Senior Boys, Dublin 5
3. Baltimore Fishery School for Senior Boys, Baltimore, Co. Cork
4. Benada Abbey Industrial School for Girls, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
5. Carriglea Park Industrial School for Senior Boys, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
6. Cottage Home, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
7. Don Bosco House, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
8. Family Group Home, Geevagh, Co. Sligo
9. Family Group Home, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
10. Family Group Home, Wexford
11. Kirwan House, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
12. Madonna House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
13. Madonna House, Merrion Road, Dublin 4
14. Martanna House Hostel, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9
15. Miss Carr’s Children’s Home, 5 Northbrook Road, Dublin 6
16. Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, Moate, Co. Westmeath
Nazareth House, Sligo
17. Orphanage Schools, Convent of Mercy, Kells, Co. Meath
18. Our Boy’s Home, 95 Monkstown Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
19. Our Lady of Mercy Industrial School for Girls, Kinsale, Co. Cork
20. Our Lady of Succour Industrial School, Newtownforbes, Co. Longford
21. Our Lady’s Industrial School for Girls, Ennis, Co. Clare
22. Pembrook Alms (Nazareth House) Industrial School for Girls, Tralee, Co. Kerry
23. CPI Marino Special School, Bray, Co. Wicklow
24. Cork University Hospital School
25. Harcourt Street Hospital, Dublin 2
26. Holy Family School for Moderate Learning Disability, Charleville, Co. Cork
27. Our Lady of Good Counsel, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
28. Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
29. Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12
30 Sacred Heart Home, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
31. School of the Divine Child, Lavanagh, Ballintemple, Cork
32. School of the Holy Spirit, Seville Lodge, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
33. Scoil Ard Mhuire, Lusk, Co Dublin
34. Scoil Eanna, School of the Angels, Montenotte, Cork
35. Scoil Triest, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
36. St. Martin’s Orphanage, Waterford
37. St. Clare’s Orphanage, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6
38. St. David’s, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
39. St. Gabriel’s School, Curraheen Road, Cork
40. St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
41. St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
42. St. Joseph’s Orthapaedic Hospital for Children, Coole, Co. Westmeath
43. St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Impaired, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
44. St. Kevin’s Reformatory, Glencree, Co. Wicklow
45. St. Martha’s Industrial School, Monaghan
46. St. Martha’s Industrial School, Merrion, Dublin 4
47. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Baldoyle, Dublin 13
48. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Dublin 11
49. St. Mary’s School for Visually Impaired Girls, Merrion, Dublin
50. St. Vincent’s Centre for Persons with Intellectual Disability, Lisnagry, Limerick
51. St. Vincent’s Orphanage, North William St, Dublin 9
52. St. Aidan’s Industrial School for Girls, Newross, Co. Wexford
53. St. Aloysius’ Industrial School for Girls, Clonakilty, Co. Cork
54. St. Ann’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Renmore, Lenaboy, Co. Galway
55. St. Anne’s Industrial School for Girls, Booterstown, Co. Dublin
56. St. Anne’s Reformatory School for Girls, Kilmacud, Co. Dublin
57. St. Anne’s, Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
58. St. Augustine’s Industrial School for Girls, Templemore, Co. Tipperary
59. St. Augustine’s, Obelisk Park, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
60. St. Bernadette’s, Bonnington, Montenotte, Cork
61. St. Bernard’s Industrial School for Girls, Fethard, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
62. St. Bridgid’s Industrial School for Girls, Loughrea, Co. Galway
63. St. Cecilia’s, Cregg House, Sligo
64. St. Clare’s Orphanage, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6
65. St. Coleman’s Industrial School for Girls, Cobh/Rushbrook, Co. Cork
66. St. Columba’s Industrial School for Girls, Westport, Co. Mayo
67. St. Conleth’s Reformatory School for Boys, Daingean, Co. Offaly
68. St. Dominick’s Industrial School for Girls, Waterford
69. St. Finbarr’s Industrial School for Girls, Sundays Well, Marymount, Cork
70. St. Francis Xavier’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon
71. St. Francis’ & St Mary of the Angels, Beaufort, Killarney, Co. Kerry
72. St. Francis’ Industrial School for Girls, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
73. St. George’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
74. St. John’s Industrial School for Girls, Birr, Co. Offaly
75. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Passage West, Co. Cork
76. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Tralee, Co. Kerry
77. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
78. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Clifden, Co. Galway
79. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Liosomoine, Killarney, Co. Kerry
80. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Cavan
81. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Dundalk, Co. Louth
82. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Kilkenny
83. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Mallow, Co. Cork
84. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Summerhill, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
85. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Whitehall, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
86. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Ferryhouse, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
87. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Glin, Co. Limerick
88. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Greenmount, Cork
89. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Letterfrack, Co. Galway
90. St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Salthill, Co. Galway
91. St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire
92. St. Joseph’s Reformatory School for Girls, Limerick
93. St. Joseph’s School for Hearing Impaired Boys, Cabra, Dublin 7
94. St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Handicapped, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
95. St. Kyran’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
96. St. Laurence’s Industrial School for Girls, Sligo
97. St. Laurence’s Industrial School, Finglas, Dublin 11
98. St. Martha’s Industrial School for Girls, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
99. St. Mary’s Industrial School, Lakelands, Sandymount, Dublin 4
100. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Baldoyle, Dublin 13
101. St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, Dublin 11 Sch.
102. St. Mary’s School for Hearing Impaired Girls, Cabra, Dublin 7
103. St. Mary’s, Delvin, Co. Westmeath
104. St. Mary’s, Drumcar, Dunleer, Co. Louth
105. St. Mary’s, Rochestown, Cork
106. St. Michael’s Industrial School for Girls, Wexford
107. St. Michael’s Industrial School for Junior boys, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
108. St. Michael’s, Glenmaroon, Chapelizod, Dublin 20
109. St. Mura’s Orphanage, Fahan, Co. Donegal
110. St. Patrick’s Industrial School for Boys, Upton, Cork
111. St. Patrick’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Kilkenny
112. St. Paul’s Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9
113. St. Paul’s, Montenotte, Cork
114. St. Saviour’s Orphanage, Lr. Dominick Street, Dublin 1
115. St. Vincent’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Drogheda, Co. Louth
116. St. Vincent’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
117. St. Vincent’s Industrial School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin 8
118. St. Vincent’s Orphanage, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
119. St. Vincent’s, Navan Road, Dublin 7
120. Stewart’s Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20
121. Tabor House, Dublin
122. Temple Street Hospital, Dublin 1
123. The Bird’s Nest Home, 19 York Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
124. The Los Angeles Homes, Dublin
125. The O’Brien Institute, Malahide Road, Dublin
126. Trudder House, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
127. Warrenstown House, Corduff Road, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
The above list contains no Magdalen Asylums.
List of the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland
(There were a few more Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, to be added to the list as information comes in)
http://jfmresearch.com/home/preserving-magdalene-history/high-park/
1. High Park Convent, Drumcondra Dublin
2. Sisters of Mercy Laundry, Galway
3. Bethany Home, Laundry Rathgar, Dublin. Closed in 1972. (Protestant-run)
4. Ballsbridge Terrace Laundry, Dublin. (Protestant-run)
5. Dun Laoghaire Magdalene Laundry Dublin
6. Donnybrook Laundry, Dublin
7. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin;- Close 1996 Gloucester Street laundry (Gloucester Street Laundry)
8. Good Shepherd Laundry, Sunday Wells, Cork
9. Good Shepherd Laundry, Waterford City. Closed in 1996
10. Good Shepherd Laundry, New Ross, Wexford
11. Good Shepherd Laundry, Pennywell Road Limerick
12. St. Joseph’s Orphanage & Laundry Cavan Town.
13. The Ulster Magdalene Asylum, 1839 at Donegall Pass, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Closed 1966 (Protestant-run)
14. The Good Shepherd Laundry on Belfast's Ormeau Road. Closed 1977. Northern Ireland
15. The Presbyterian Church ran the Ulster Female Penitentiary & Laundry. Northern Ireland
16. Good Shepherd Laundry, Derry, Northern Ireland
17. Good Shepherd Laundry Newry, Northern Ireland. The Marian Vale Mother and Baby Home. The Good Shepherd’s Sisters ran 2 Laundries in Newry.
http://jfmresearch.com/home/magdalene-names-project/
A figure of 170,000 children passing through the industrial schools between 1936 and 1970 is correct.
Many of the statistics supplied in the Ryan Report were provided by Eoin O'Sullivan, Lecturer in Social Policy at Trinity College, Dublin. Eoin is author of "Child Welfare in Ireland, 1750-1995: A History of the Present" and co-authored "Suffer the little Children" with Mary Raftery the blurb for which states "Between 1868 and 1969, more than 100,000 Irish children were taken from their families by the state and placed in so-called industrial schools run by various orders of the Catholic Church".
Over the period from 1936 to 1970, a total of 170,000 children and young persons entered the gates of the 127 or so industrial schools in Ireland
The Christian Brothers are on record as stating 20,000 children passed through the industrial schools under their management since 1922 and the Christian Brothers ran most of the boys institutions.
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”
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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 4 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