i would love to visit ireland...i always have fun when i visit the british isles and in spite of the crazy government controls recently written here about scotland - i love scotland and had planned to move to edinburgh one day. but then i saw amsterdam, then seville, and aaahhh rome!

re: ireland...i saw a movie called "the magdalene sisters" and it was a horrific, but riveting account of these prison-like catholic institutions for women that started in the late 19th century and stayed open well into the 1990s! a refuge of sorts initially for "wayward" or single women, but then it became a place of atrocious abuses that kept women against their will for such tawdry behavior as dancing with a boy or deciding not marry...

for more on this great movie, see this article which also provides some background on the real story as many questioned if the movie could possibly be true (i certainly wondered as i had never heard of such a recent thing happening) http://www.decentfilms.com/secti...s/articles/ 2551

just a morsel of religion to think about this holy weekend. but i guess all countries (and religions for that matter) have their skeletons...
Minerva Oblongata | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 9:20 am | #

Yeah, Ireland was a religious prison. But I think that makes it sudden success and modernization all the more spectacular.
Leonardo | Homepage | 04.15.06 - 1:37 pm | #