Comments on: Ryan Report — Artane, The Christian Brothers’ Gulag

By: julie

julie — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:01:12 +0000

i have just read about the christian brothers at the atane industrial school and i am very shocked at the disgusting treatment they inflicted on the poor children who were unfortunate to be sent there. Sick horrible men hiding behind the cloth.My heart goes out to all the children who had to stay in this horrible disgusting place. The artane may no longer exist but i am sure that the horrible memories stay with these people, my heart goes out to you all..God bless you all xx
julie

By: Marina Goff

Marina Goff — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:57:51 +0000

I am so sad reading on this subject my father was raised in this place….wrong word HELL HOLE!!! my father is the most beautiful warm person but will never talk about this place has no memories that he chooses to share…bar one he once told me when i was a child that he stole a potato skin from the kitchen because he was so hungry…he was caught and forced to stand in the gardens naked in the snow for aprox 6 hours as a child i thought yeah right now after reading this i feel i owe my dad a hug….They will rot in hell for what they forced upon children monsters hiding in cloth they make me sick!!!!

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:45:09 +0000

My late beloved father was in Artane from tender age of 7yrs to 16….(he would have been there from approx 1934 -1942).
He never told us much about it ,but that the CB’s were sadists and the boys were always hungry. He nearly died there at 8years old from a burst appendix, because he was made to run around the parade area when doubled up suffering from the acute pain.
Unlike an earlier commentator, luckily my father NEVER EVER raised a hand to us children. He was very protective of us and a good loving father, so I suppose it affected different boys in different ways.It is a testament to him that he did not.
I think these CB’s should be named and shamed and treated like nazi war criminals and be prosecuted in the courts. Those that are long dead should still be named. We need to appraoch this like the jewish people did the holocaust – and take the catholic church on…because due to the vows of celibracy it attracts the wrong sorts…in fact it is like a peodophiles private club and prob still going on in poorer countries right now.

By: GEORGE

GEORGE — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:04:34 +0000

MY FATHER INLAW WAS IN ARTANE IN 1921 T0 1931 APPROX AND HE SUFFERED PHYSICAL ABUSE AND WOULD NOT APPLY FOR REDRESS , HE DIED AGED 93 2 YEARS AGO WHAT A HERO.

George

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:14:10 +0000

Going to mass every week and putting money in the plate is pure cowardice.
Inaction by the government, protecting the rapists from criminal prosecution is cowardice.

I don’t expect anything but evasion and damage control from a mummified church clinging to power.

By: pete coyne

pete coyne — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:17:21 +0000

i hadnt read a book in 20 years but when a friend of mine that attended artane asked me to read( fear of the collar) i bought the book and could not put it down and read it in 4 hours its a life changing book and i understand how it became a best seller patrick touher is a very special person and my heart goes out to anyone that endured time at artane and the abuse suffered therein thank god its come to an end and no one else has to go through it we should fight abuse in any shape or form ………….. pete coyne

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:40 +0000

my dad was in artane from the age off ten .i have only recently known about his chidhood and the extent off what he and thousands of other children suffered .the pain i felt when i knew was sickning and heartbreaking.i never had a loving relationship with my dad when i was growing up life was very difficult with him.but now i understand why he was like that.what i want to say is that the evil what them institutions was not only destroyed the generation who was sentenced there but the generations that followed.

By: robert walker

robert walker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:57:30 +0000

hi Ruth, i’ve only just seen the comment t.hat you left for me, many thanks, Robert

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:36:44 +0000

Hi Robert,

You can apply to the Origins tracing service to get more information about your Dad. This is a service run by Barnardos. Call them, they will send you a form and you supply them with as much info as possible, they do the search for you. This is a free service.

Good luck to you
Ruth

By: Charles o'Rourke

Charles o'Rourke — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:58:56 +0000

Bock, i,m back from the hills of Norway with a vengence. The basrards have shipped out the money to an off shore shore investment company in the USA. So we have the dregs left here and the smart ones are making tracks out .One thing we can do is if they pop up over here on the European mainland they could be arrested on foot of an european arrest warrent. Look what happened to Pinochet. We just have to talk to some Spanish judges, they have the balls to do it. Anyway Bock I,m back. I,ll start brushing up on my Spanish.