The very idea that our brutalisation in such institutions as Artane and its band would become a National spectacle in a sports arena as some National reminder of a Nation's past wrongs to children is breathtakingly insulting and patronising bearing in mind, that for the many thousands of us that went through that system, we live with it everyday and attempt to recover from it every moment.
We do not need our agony and our suffering to be memorialized in the Artane Band as it is a direct representation of the inhumanity that was perpetrated upon us in the institutions.
The Artane Band is still intact with all its paraphenalia and is an institution in itself that needs to be closed down like the Letterfracks, the Daingeans, the Glins, the Passage Wests. the Magdalene Laundries to name but a few.
Disband the band.
Decommission its insignia and its uniform.
We do not need our agony and our suffering to be memorialized in the Artane Band as it is a direct representation of the inhumanity that was perpetrated upon us in the institutions.
The Artane Band is still intact with all its paraphenalia and is an institution in itself that needs to be closed down like the Letterfracks, the Daingeans, the Glins, the Passage Wests. the Magdalene Laundries to name but a few.
Disband the band.
Decommission its insignia and its uniform.
Irish Times Article: September 10th 2016: Artane Band Name a Useful Reminder
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/diarmaid-ferriter-artane-band-name-a-useful-reminder-1.2785741
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/diarmaid-ferriter-artane-band-name-a-useful-reminder-1.2785741
