Episode 5: The Catholic Church

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

For decades, Ireland was synonymous with Catholic state control - but the last 30 years have seen a new cultural climate take hold in the country, and a furious backlash has broken out against the legacies of the Church's institutional stranglehold. We'll be looking at how the Church became so powerful in the Irish Republic in the first place, and the reasons behind its dramatic fall from grace in recent times. We'll be talking to the formidable local historian Catherine Corless, who exposed institutional abuse and cover-ups on a massive scale in 2014, and we'll also interview journalists and doctors at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, which inspired public outrage when the state almost gave it over to an order of nuns with a very questionable past.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, Tim here. We don't have time for a full questions and answers session this week,
0:04.2	but we couldn't ignore all the great feedback we got from you about our last episode. So thanks
0:08.1	everyone for your shares and writings. We're thrilled so many people were interested in the subject
0:12.3	and we'll definitely be following up more on the knowledge gap in future. There were two things
0:16.6	too that loads of people pointed out to us, so I thought I'd better mention them. Firstly, that the Scottish education system is, of course, different from the one in England,
0:23.9	so lots of statistics that we mentioned won't apply there.
0:26.5	If you have any comparisons between the syllabi in Scotland and England, please let us know,
0:30.2	because it would be really interesting to explore.
0:32.2	Secondly, I got one of my dates wrong.
0:34.0	The Victoria statue wasn't actually removed from Dublin's government buildings until 1948. So shout out to Shane Hennigan on Twitter for setting us straight on that one. It really
0:42.8	makes it even more interesting, actually, since, of course, that was around the time that the Irish
0:46.2	Republic was officially declared. So thanks, Shane, and thanks to all of you. Let's get on with the
0:50.8	episode. Hello. Welcome to Irish Passport. Let's do it.
0:54.5	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:56.3	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:57.4	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:58.5	We're friends.
0:59.1	Can you both to Naomi?
1:00.0	Anwar Fat Tim.
1:01.4	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
1:04.7	Uh-huh.
1:04.9	I'm recording.
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