by sumac | Jan 9, 2017 | Historical Apologies, Youth apologizes
Back in the day – the eighteenth century, I mean – Emily Fitzgerald, Countess of Kildare, set up a school for her many children (by the end she had 22). She and her husband, the Duke of Leinster, bought Black Rock, a bathing lodge south of Dublin, and fixed it up so...
by snarly | Feb 26, 2016 | Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Historical Apologies
According to the charming web site The Irish Aesthete, this framed item hangs in a bathroom at Birr Castle, County Offaly. As a lowly American Jewess not of the peerage, I don’t know whether the contrite Earl of Rosse is the current Earl (the 7th, for those...
by sumac | Jun 18, 2015 | Media Apologies
There was a birthday party in Berkeley, California. Thirteen guests were out on the fourth-floor balcony when its supports suddenly snapped. It collapsed onto the balcony below, pitching people onto the sidewalk 50 feet down. Four people were killed instantly. Two...
by sumac | Feb 22, 2013 | Historical Apologies
The Magdalene asylums, or Magdalene Laundries, were institutions in Ireland and elsewhere, where women were committed and forced to work unpaid, on the theory that it would reform their foul sexy ways. They were often run by nuns. Originally for prostitutes, they were...
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