{"id":1652,"date":"2014-06-08T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2014-06-08T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T08:14:58","slug":"the-buried-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuppenceworth.ie\/blog\/2014\/06\/08\/the-buried-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buried Present"},"content":{"rendered":"

A terrible historical event intrudes into the present in lots of ways. Knowledge of a wrong makes us want to see justice done. But before we can do the work justice requires, we have to get through history’s bottleneck. We have to know what happened in the past. <\/p>\n

That’s why the issue of reporting of the Tuam #800babies story is not the distraction it might look like. It feels wrong to care about which paper or station said what when, of course. It feels like it reduces horrors to the status of a media bunfight. But the choice to publish or withhold information- to acknowledge or ignore- is the proxy for the question; what will we remember and what will we forget?<\/p>\n

There has been too much silence. We have forgotten too much too often that was inconvenient. <\/p>\n

I am not inclined to give anyone who might ensure the past stays buried any latitude.<\/p>\n

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