October 2014 Blog Posts (6)

Thousands of people in Switzerland who were forced into child labour are demanding compensation for their stolen childhoods. Since the 1850s hundreds of thousands of Swiss children were taken from their parents and sent to farms to work - a practice that continued well into the 20th Century.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623

Childhood Reflections

Poverty while growing up in Ireland was not a crime

But it was a curse

It caused others to look down on me and made me…

Hi family and friends of above...I came across a notice which said the following...Is this the same Helen that you are looking for?

Helen Jackson...

Gurteen Cottage

Rathcabbin Roscrea

Died at Midlands Regional Hospital Jan 22nd 07...Deeply regretted by her loving sister Ethel...Helen is resting in Clonoghill  Cemetery Birr...

Hope it might be the lady you are looking for...Rosaleen

Dear Minister Frances Fitzgerald,

Then and Now

 Life moves on and all comes good

When those who suffer believe in truth

Whilst that great disease hyp-ocri-cee

Thrives on the same

Irish hypocrisy is Authoritarian based

They boast of all the good they do

In Africa, Belarus and other Eastern States

But Irish hypocrisy reigns supreme

Whilst the suffering Irish dwell in pain -

We trusted the Nuns and they beat our girls

We trusted the Priests and they…

Sir,

Did you have to use that ruler 

So viciously back then when

we were all little children 

In your care -

Did you have to use the side of that ruler

As you held our bony wrists…