As Crowe (2021) write, records of the past are incomplete, contradictory, biased, missing and in Ireland, restricted by religious orders. Discuss the importance of testimony, or personal stories of the survivors,in calling attention to the histories of state- and church-supported gender oppression in Irish society.
Description Drawing upon Lectures 8 (Professor Kearns) and Lecture 9 (Professor Till), and the reading from Catherine Cox (2018), discuss an historical institution of incarceration in Ireland as a form of structural and systemic injustice. This may include Workhouses, Asylums for Penitent Women/Magdalen Laundries, Foundling Hospitals/Mother and Baby Homes. Be sure to discuss how the […]