Welcome Page Footer Mother and Baby Homes It has been called a holocaust, a mass murder of babies, with fantastical tales of abuse that have been imagined Getting rid of an Embarrassment to Catholic Ireland! Soon after the Tuam story went global in 2014, University College Dublin's Professor of Modern History, Diarmaid Ferriter, wrote ‘the The Starvation Lie The chief lie upon which the mother and baby scandal relies upon is the claim that babies were starved to The Unmarked Grave Site Lie Almost every photo taken of the memorial garden where some children from the Tuam Children's Home are buried show a The Mother and Baby Home Lie The home at Tuam was never called a Mother and Baby Home. Its official name was St. Mary's Children's Home The Mass Grave Lie Would you consider your local cemetery to be a mass grave, perhaps an old burial ground with no headstones or Dumped in a septic tank! ‘This erroneous assertion that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That is not true’. Prof Diarmaid Ferriter - Little Mistakes Grow into Big False Impressions Little mistakes that go unchallenged are one of the primary contributors to false history. Here is one which is not Debunked – Historical Misogyny Una Mullally writing for the Irish Times asks "Out of 697 Dublin mayors, why have only eight been women?" Una Carl Sagan – Mythmaker & the Priests of Science America's most popular science writer was a lousy historian! Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was a revered and immensely popular public figure Imagination Replaces Knowledge Poor quality thinking is much in evidence these days, especially in the media, both traditional and non-traditional. One recent exemplar Irish independent Adding Fuel to the Fire Coronavirus: Pictures emerge of temporary mass graves in New York as US Covid-19 death toll surpasses 16,500 (Irish independent April The Slave Debunker Debunked! Debunking a claimed Historical Debunking - Slave myth Part 1 Recently a post on Irish History's Facebook page carried out The War on Irish history – Irish Slavery In recent years, the Irish nation has been at war with its own history, due mainly to the inevitable pendulum False History – Understanding the role of Cognitive Biases This documentary financed by the Canadian government provides a good overview of the outcomes due to our cognitive biases combined The Enforced Silence of the Dissenters Historians Silence on False History The Tuam Children’s Home or to give it its full title, St. Mary’s Home, Tuam Mad Irish Feminists going off Half-Cocked over Tampon Ad Ban. The loonie fringe of Irish Feminism Róisín Ingle went off half-cocked recently in her article published in the Irish Times History Seminar 4th October 2020 All is set to go for Sunday's history seminar with particular reference to the Tuam Children’s Home. The event is Commission Cover-up The Commission of investigation set up to investigate the claims surrounding mother and baby homes has moved to cover-up all Sanctimonious University Professor and Pseudo-history Professor Chris Fitzpatrick’s article in the Irish Times published 13th October 2020 is chiefly remarkable, not so much for its Abuse to Hide Abuse Most sexual abuse of females is heterosexual in nature. Does that mean that there is a link between heterosexuality and The Real Baby Killers EXPOSED Who was killing the illegitimate children of Ireland, the women running protestant and catholic mother and baby homes or the High Infant Mortality Rates are not Evidence of Abuse Infants in 21st century England, who are born to unmarried mothers, are 30% more likely to die than those born Political Fantasy – Children Starved to Death Politicians out to fool the people jumped at the chance to fabricate notions of murderous women, both protestant and catholic The Single Claim of Misogyny in the Commission’s Report Despite newspaper reports that Ireland was once a ‘deeply misogynistic’ society, the word makes only one appearance in the commission’s Fergus Finlay’s – Newest Anti-Catholic Rant Fergus Finlay tells his readers to believe him on the sole basis that he ‘knows what he is talking about’. Michael McDowell – the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland Michael McDowell assumed his role as the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland. The country’s biggest eejit had to apologise for The HSE – Ireland’s answer to Disneyland Once upon a time in a land of little people, officials were employed by the country’s health services to create The Imprisoned Mothers Myth – Does Truth Matter? Sinn Féin has suddenly dropped its false claims of deliberate starvation of children and women at Ireland's Mother and Baby The Perverse Morality of Micheál Martin – Taoiseach sneers at his mother. During the second decade of the twenty-first century, under the rule of the Taoiseach/Prime minister Micheál Martin, children born to Critical Thinking Skills Absent at Galway University IT IS THE YOUNG WHO BELIEVE US This headline was probably the most significant comment made during a Zoom presentation Book Launch – Online – Friday 2nd April 2021 8pm The Irish Attack on Christianity – The Case for the Defence The mother and baby homes scandal is but one Irish Self Loathing More bloat has been added to the already distended corpus of Irish literature dedicated to Irish self-loathing. It is a The Rubberbandits and Blind Wet Fartage! Isn't it amazing how Blindboy, who celebrates or at least draws attention to Limerick’s reputation for criminality, gets miffed when Letter to United Nations re the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Dear Mr Salvioli, When miscarriages of justice occurred in Ireland, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties was strangely silent. Contrast The Rubberbandits poke Ignorant Fun. Unlike the Rubberbandits, the ancient Greeks has brains and put them to use trying to figure out the world and ‘History cannot be a dehumanised, reductive, simplistic or self-serving narrative’ The gross hypocrisy of An Taoiseach Micheál Martin might not be immediately discernible from his the quote below, spoken at Government Snobs Increase the Poverty Penalty In the same week when medics expressed concern about the high consumption of cannabis and its negative health effects on Top 5 Falsehoods of Irish History which Everyone Believes are Facts The Irish nation is particularly prone to believing in historical myths. Falsehoods appear with such frequency in the country’s media Bias and Prejudice Unbridled on Children’s Committee When welcoming the report, it was obvious that Kathleen Funchion had not read it... Speaking in the Dáil Éireann debate What the MABH Commission got wrong! Dear Taoiseach, when appointing an independent ‘expert’ or new commission of investigation, it is imperative that ‘experts’ and members of A Debt of Gratitude Owed to Our Great Women Florence Nightingale wanted to learn her nursing craft from the best nurses in the world, the nuns at St Vincent’s Post-Truth Era Afflicts Irish Universities The Post-Truth Era hit Ireland earlier than most other nations. Women’s studies at the universities provided a fertile breeding ground Alternative Mother and Baby Home Report Many academics were made to look foolish because the final report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby Dublin Universities Involved in Illegal Clinical Trials on Children The commission of investigation into mother and baby homes named the following people for conducting vaccine trials on children without Babies and children are recurring themes in conspiracy theories During the recent floods in Germany during the summer of 2021, many people on social media — even those with Embarrassed Irish Academics Rewrite Commission of Investigation Report A violation of law is one thing but accusing people of violating laws which don’t exist or did not exist A Spoofer’s Guide to Infant Mortality Statistics Numpties beware! A rhetorical technique in use. (see below) Recent research conducted by the investigative historian Eugene Jordan during 2020 Lawyers Exaggerating Weak Arguments Fools Only Fools Article No 2 in the series of a commentary on Alternative Mother and Baby Homes Report, authored by 21 Irish Mila Oiva – Uncovering the Formation of Fake History Narratives False history has the same fingerprint worldwide. Mila Oiva Mila Oiva, as a Senior Research Fellow at CUDAN Open Lab
