I don’t claim to be very informed about all of this and only in the last year or so became aware of your endeavours and those of Donal Balance.
It just seems to me, as someone who was a lobbyist for 8 years, that a core group of survivors from Blackrock and Belvedere etc, ought to form an informal ginger group to write joint letters to the press etc.
You (Belvedere) and Chris Dorris (Blackrock) seem to me to be the obvious articulate leaders for this mission and Donal Ballance should he be so inclined.
Survivors really need to join up across their respective Orders and coalesce around a few key points. Otherwise, we’ll just be writing- no doubt beautifully penned - letters and pieces in isolation to apparatchiks in the Curia and the like. In effect, beating our heads off the stumps of trees. I really don’t see that getting us places.
Thank you so much for those kind words and an absolutely excellent suggestion. I'd be delighted to be part of such a triumvirate and quite agree that there would be strength to be gained in combining. After all, the objects of our criticism are very well versed in dividing and conquering!
Tom, I have been following your comments and investigations with interest and admiration. You probably don't remember me, but I met you a good many times with the late Gerry Haugh and others in the eighties and since. I've being doing my own best to understand what went wrong with the religious orders and their schools in our time (the Jesuits as well as other orders), and sharing strange histories with many people. I'd be very glad to talk more on email (I don't generally use social media but I'm at michael.clarke@universityofgalway.ie)
I was just thinking about Gerry this evening and what a good man he was. It is very good to hear from you. Were you one his legendary IGIs as he called them even long after you had moved on? Maybe Ballinskelligs? I'm tdoorley@gmail.com and would be delighted to talk. Give me a shout and any time and thank you so much for getting in touch.
A commendable piece again Tom.
I don’t claim to be very informed about all of this and only in the last year or so became aware of your endeavours and those of Donal Balance.
It just seems to me, as someone who was a lobbyist for 8 years, that a core group of survivors from Blackrock and Belvedere etc, ought to form an informal ginger group to write joint letters to the press etc.
You (Belvedere) and Chris Dorris (Blackrock) seem to me to be the obvious articulate leaders for this mission and Donal Ballance should he be so inclined.
Survivors really need to join up across their respective Orders and coalesce around a few key points. Otherwise, we’ll just be writing- no doubt beautifully penned - letters and pieces in isolation to apparatchiks in the Curia and the like. In effect, beating our heads off the stumps of trees. I really don’t see that getting us places.
Tom M
Dear Tom
Thank you so much for those kind words and an absolutely excellent suggestion. I'd be delighted to be part of such a triumvirate and quite agree that there would be strength to be gained in combining. After all, the objects of our criticism are very well versed in dividing and conquering!
T
Tom, I have been following your comments and investigations with interest and admiration. You probably don't remember me, but I met you a good many times with the late Gerry Haugh and others in the eighties and since. I've being doing my own best to understand what went wrong with the religious orders and their schools in our time (the Jesuits as well as other orders), and sharing strange histories with many people. I'd be very glad to talk more on email (I don't generally use social media but I'm at michael.clarke@universityofgalway.ie)
Dear Michael
I was just thinking about Gerry this evening and what a good man he was. It is very good to hear from you. Were you one his legendary IGIs as he called them even long after you had moved on? Maybe Ballinskelligs? I'm tdoorley@gmail.com and would be delighted to talk. Give me a shout and any time and thank you so much for getting in touch.