Genesis

It has been called a holocaust, a mass murder of babies, with fantastical tales of abuse that have been imagined ...

Soon after the Tuam story went global in 2014, University College Dublin's Professor of Modern History, Diarmaid Ferriter, wrote ‘the ...

The chief lie upon which the mother and baby scandal relies upon is the claim that babies were starved to ...

Almost every photo taken of the memorial garden where some children from the Tuam Children's Home are buried show a ...

The home at Tuam was never called a Mother and Baby Home. Its official name was St. Mary's Children's Home ...

Would you consider your local cemetery to be a mass grave, perhaps an old burial ground with no headstones or ...

‘This erroneous assertion that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That is not true’. Prof Diarmaid Ferriter - ...

‘I woke up the next day in a guy’s house covered in bruises’ Ireland’s culture of putting men first is ...

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Little mistakes that go unchallenged are one of the primary contributors to false history. Here is one which is not ...

Una Mullally writing for the Irish Times asks "Out of 697 Dublin mayors, why have only eight been women?" Una ...

America's most popular science writer was a lousy historian! Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was a revered and immensely popular public figure ...

Poor quality thinking is much in evidence these days, especially in the media, both traditional and non-traditional. One recent exemplar ...

Coronavirus: Pictures emerge of temporary mass graves in New York as US Covid-19 death toll surpasses 16,500 (Irish independent April ...

Debunking a claimed Historical Debunking - Slave myth Part 1 Recently a post on Irish History's Facebook page carried out ...

In recent years, the Irish nation has been at war with its own history, due mainly to the inevitable pendulum ...

This documentary financed by the Canadian government provides a good overview of the outcomes due to our cognitive biases combined ...

Historians Silence on False History The Tuam Children’s Home or to give it its full title, St. Mary’s Home, Tuam ...

The loonie fringe of Irish Feminism Róisín Ingle went off half-cocked recently in her article published in the Irish Times ...

All is set to go for Sunday's  history seminar with particular reference to the Tuam Children’s Home. The event is ...

The Commission of investigation set up to investigate the claims surrounding mother and baby homes has moved to cover-up all ...

Professor Chris Fitzpatrick’s article in the Irish Times published 13th October 2020 is chiefly remarkable, not so much for its ...

Most sexual abuse of females is heterosexual in nature. Does that mean that there is a link between heterosexuality and ...

Who was killing the illegitimate children of Ireland, the women running protestant and catholic mother and baby homes or the ...

Infants in 21st century England, who are born to unmarried mothers, are 30% more likely to die than those born ...

Politicians out to fool the people jumped at the chance to fabricate notions of murderous women, both protestant and catholic ...

Despite newspaper reports that Ireland was once a ‘deeply misogynistic’ society, the word makes only one appearance in the commission’s ...

Fergus Finlay tells his readers to believe him on the sole basis that he ‘knows what he is talking about’ ...

Michael McDowell assumed his role as the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland. The country’s biggest eejit had to apologise for ...

Once upon a time in a land of little people, officials were employed by the country’s health services to create ...

Sinn Féin has suddenly dropped its false claims of deliberate starvation of children and women at Ireland's Mother and Baby ...

During the second decade of the twenty-first century, under the rule of the Taoiseach/Prime minister Micheál Martin, children born to ...

IT IS THE YOUNG WHO BELIEVE US This headline was probably the most significant comment made during a Zoom presentation ...

The Irish Attack on Christianity – The Case for the Defence The mother and baby homes scandal is but one ...

More bloat has been added to the already distended corpus of Irish literature dedicated to Irish self-loathing. It is a ...

Isn't it amazing how Blindboy, who celebrates or at least draws attention to Limerick’s reputation for criminality, gets miffed when ...

Dear Mr Salvioli, When miscarriages of justice occurred in Ireland, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties was strangely silent. Contrast ...

Unlike the Rubberbandits, the ancient Greeks has brains and put them to use trying to figure out the world and ...

The gross hypocrisy of An Taoiseach Micheál Martin might not be immediately discernible from his the quote below, spoken at ...

In the same week when medics expressed concern about the high consumption of cannabis and its negative health effects on ...

The top five myths of Irish history which Irish People believe #5 The Mother and Child Scheme – Foundation Myth ...

The Irish nation is particularly prone to believing in historical myths. Falsehoods appear with such frequency in the country’s media ...

When welcoming the report, it was obvious that Kathleen Funchion had not read it... Speaking in the Dáil  Éireann debate ...

Dear Taoiseach, when appointing an independent ‘expert’ or new commission of investigation, it is imperative that ‘experts’ and members of ...

Florence Nightingale wanted to learn her nursing craft from the best nurses in the world, the nuns at St Vincent’s ...

The Post-Truth Era hit Ireland earlier than most other nations. Women’s studies at the universities provided a fertile breeding ground ...

Many academics were made to look foolish because the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby ...

The commission of investigation into mother and baby homes named the following people for conducting vaccine trials on children without ...

During the recent floods in Germany during the summer of 2021, many people on social media — even those with ...

A violation of law is one thing but accusing people of violating laws which don’t exist or did not exist ...

Numpties beware! A rhetorical technique in use. (see below) Recent research conducted by the investigative historian Eugene Jordan during 2020 ...

Article No 2 in the series of a commentary on Alternative Mother and Baby Homes Report, authored by 21 Irish ...

False history has the same fingerprint worldwide. Mila Oiva Mila Oiva, as a Senior Research Fellow at CUDAN Open Lab ...

Dr Julia Shaw says false memories of our past can threaten our future. As false memories can be intentionally or ...

Below are the names of the infants and children along with the cause of their death copied from their death ...

Catherine Corless has put into the public domain the records of children who died at the Tuam Children’s Home but ...

Irish taxpayers are being forced to pay massive a compensation bill — costing each worker an average of €355 — ...

Yet another carbuncle has been added to the corpus of Ireland’s mother and baby homes saga. In a recent judgement, ...

Leo’s Varadkar’s apology following the publication of the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes ...

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt Damien O'Reilly, broadcaster and ...

In direct contradiction of a commission of investigation findings, RTÉ continues to pursue its anti-Catholic agenda using the full gamut ...

RTÉ is perusing it anti-Catholic agenda with gusto again this week with not one, but two false history programmes. Historians ...

Broadsheet.ie is a guttersnipe website which gives vent to a certain type of Irish prejudices and bias. There is no ...

Truth is the first casualty of war. In war, all armies commit atrocities. Beware of false flag operations. These are ...

Since the war began in Ukraine, Ireland’s state broadcaster has begun nearly every one of its news bulletins with the ...

History is always great craic as there are many people who have their own version of it and swear their ...

Arthur Beesley knows little of the history of Ireland and less about the medical history of the nation, but he ...

Many Irish feminists, particularly those of the crackpot variety, are not very bright and do not possess the ability to ...

The abuse of Amnesty International in the wake of its report examining the misbehaviour of the Ukrainian military, exposes the ...

Brains are not only in very short supply at the state broadcaster, it is highly doubtful that they have even ...

Picture this scenario: You visit a doctor who diagnoses you with a kidney infection and suggests that the only effective ...

Jennifer Zamparelli has made it her mission to broadcast the flatulence of Irish self-loathing from the basement of the RTÉ ...

Catherine Corless is an amateur researcher who jumped to many fantastical conclusions due to a lack of knowledge, skillset and ...

Anna Corrigan has no competent medical knowledge and has fabricated a story about the Tuam Children's home. Former advisor to ...

Medical Nescience - Catherine Corless has a level of knowledge of vintage medicine that is far less than zero. Journalist, ...

Acadumbics: The Irish university system has some brilliant historians, but none of them have been brave enough to challenge the ...

Gino O’Boyle’s motion was accepted at the May 2023 meeting of Sligo Co Council that called on the ‘international pharmaceutical ...

Sportswriter repeats the same old claptrap and innuendo about Tuam. The Irish Times claims to be the best and most ...

BBC news bulletins of the 18th of August 2023 named nurse Lucy Letby as “the UK's most prolific child serial ...

John McGuirk, speaking at the recent Ireland Uncensored event, blamed Ireland’s growing governmental nannyism and numptyism on the ‘useless graduate’ ...

Some people make a rock look like a genius but wear the armour of anonymity to avoid exceeding their quota ...

The fall of the Web Summit’s CEO Paddy Cosgrave was entirely his own fault. For some time, previous, Paddy had ...

Climate change activism often involves individuals with a simplistic view of the world and a limited grasp of scientific principles ...