Friday 30 May 2014

Ta' Braixa - Pick 'n' mix

Richard Cornwall Legh
Late Auditor General
Died 10 January 1876 Aged 56 Years



















Died 12th August 1840 Aged 54 Years
Peter Paul Eynaud
Died 12th August 1840 Aged 54 Years
Also to
Ann Eynaud his widow
who departed this life
on the 2nd May 1863
aged 73 years
Erected by their
affectionate children



Ta' Braixa



Thursday 29 May 2014

The 'garden' at Ta' Braixa

The 'garden' at Ta' Braixa

The 'garden' at Ta' Braixa

The 'garden' at Ta' Braixa

Ta' Braixa - Malta

Ta' Braixa
3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines 1947-1962

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Catherine Corless and Tuam

May 27 2014
 10:56 PM
The Journal i.e
"EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY to raise enough funds to build a memorial at an unmarked grave of as many as 800 babies in Tuam.  The site is located at what was a home for unmarried mothers, run by the Bon Secours order, from the 1920s until the 1960s. Catherine Corless, a local historian and genealogist, was researching the home when she discovered death records for 796 children, ranging from infants to children up to the age of nine".

Sunday 25 May 2014

The worth of illegitmate children

Blog report on Tuam
(read more)
“Cherish all the children equally” is a defining Irish shibboleth, enshrined in Ireland’s Proclamation of Independence. It is one of our highest aspirations and, like most of the things we Irish hold dearest, it is build on a solid foundation of utter hypocrisy. Cherish all the children? By all available evidence, we Irish don’t even like children. I’ve written about this before and I’m sure I will again. Ireland really is no country for small children. The Irish Mail on Sunday reports that up to eight hundred children may be buried in an unmarked mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway, on the former grounds of an institution known locally as “The Home”. (Local knowledge says that there is no “may” about this.) Run by the Bon Secours nuns, “The Home”, which had previously been a workhouse, operated between 1926 and 1961 and over the years housed thousands of unmarried mothers and their “illegitimate” children.

Sunday 11 May 2014

Msida Bastion Cemetery - Various


















  




Fra Giorgio Nibbia (1555-1619)

Taz-Zuntier or 'Chapel of Bones'
I've often mentioned that Christianity can ( and does ) appear as a cult of the dead and as a cult of bones as relics of humanity. Instead of letting the dead sink into the Earth from which they came the Church manipulates bones in death as it manipulated the living. The Chapel of Bones attributed to Fra Giorgio Nibbia (1555-1619) is one example although largely destroyed by enemy action over Malta and the actions of a secularist Government in the 1970's. The Chapel evidenced and demonstrated the dead of the nearby hospital.

Picture of the Chapel : Click here
Wikipedia                  : Click here