Category: Debunked

Anna Corrigan has no competent medical knowledge and has fabricated a story about the Tuam Children’s home. Former advisor to Dick Spring, and former CEO or Barnardo’s children’s charity, Fergus Finlay falsely claims that nuns got rich from starving children. Ignorance is the oxygen of the Irish mother and baby homes scandals.

Catherine Corless is an amateur researcher who jumped to many fantastical conclusions due to a lack of knowledge, skillset and education in the area of Irish history. She has falsely alleged that children and mothers were abused at the former Children’s Home in Tuam Co. Galway. From the get-go, she has blundered out one falsehood…

Since the war began in Ukraine, Ireland’s state broadcaster has begun nearly every one of its news bulletins with the gospel according to Zelenskyy. The Irish people, along with the people in most western countries, have been given a blinkered view of events and their causes, not because they cannot be trusted to do any…

Below are the names of the infants and children along with the cause of their death copied from their death certificates. All of these 796 deaths were certified by a medical doctor and entered on the Irish stat’s register of Births, Deaths and Marriages in accordance with the law. Some people have made out that…

Dr Julia Shaw says false memories of our past can threaten our future. As false memories can be intentionally or unintentionally implanted into people, false evidence and false confessions can be the direct result.  This can undermine the criminal justice system.  

False history has the same fingerprint worldwide. Mila Oiva Mila Oiva, as a Senior Research Fellow at CUDAN Open Lab at Tallinn University discusses why and, and what purposes were served by false history in Finland. Mila Oiva – “The Ancient Finnish Kings”: pseudohistory, conspiracy theories and text reuse

The Post-Truth Era hit Ireland earlier than most other nations. Women’s studies at the universities provided a fertile breeding ground for false histories. In no time, the notion of the ‘misogynistic nation’ took hold and grew into a full-blown conspiracy theory. One article in particular from NUI, Galway published in 2016, provides us with the…

The Irish nation is particularly prone to believing in historical myths. Falsehoods appear with such frequency in the country’s media and are never subjected to critical analysis that the stand as evidence of the nation’s cultural biases. Historical fallacies are mainly a product of political interference in the education curriculum, where important evidence has been…

Sinn Féin has suddenly dropped its false claims of deliberate starvation of children and women at Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes but insist that women were imprisoned at such institutions. The notion enjoys the support of at least one feminist historian who puts it more academically, Ireland built ‘a brutal carceral state’ to contain ‘unmarried…

In recent years, the Irish nation has been at war with its own history, due mainly to the inevitable pendulum swing away from post-independence nationalism, back towards colonial perspectives, and a plethora of Irish cultural biases. One of the exemplar battles fought in this war was/is the issue of Irish slavery. It has long been…