Plagues marking the sites of Magdalene Laundries, industrial schools and other institutions where many people were abused are set to be placed across the city.
Dublin City Council's Commemorations Committee yesterday agreed to a new civil process whereby any group can propose a plaque be placed at the site of a former institution. The motion was proposed by Independent Councillor Mannix Flynn, who is a survivor of an industrial school.
There are plans to build a national commemoration centre at the site of a Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street in the north inner city. However, Cllr Flynn doesn't believe this is the correct way to mark the abuse that went on in these institutions and previously called for the building to be demolished.
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He said: "Apart from any kind of fakery of putting a national memorial together or the fakery of putting together some sort of a depository at a library on Sean McDermott Street, this is far more democratic, far more civil and far more appropriate.
"Many of the people who were in these institutions actually go back to the site of their trauma. They don't necessarily visit national memorial or any of that kind of carry on."
Cllr Flynn plans to propose plaques at the sites of the Magdalene Laundry on Sean McDermott Street and in Donnybrook, Marlborough House in Glasnevin and the Artane Industrial School.
He added: "This is a civil process by way of any group that identifies a particular site within Dublin City Council area and get the owner's consent who have the building at the moment, we can then put up a plaque if that place was an institution, a Magdalene Laundry, an asylum or place of detention for women or children or anything that is associated with residential institutions and that shameful situation that is still evolving today.
"Places like Dublin Castle and the Children's Courts, rather than putting a touristy plaque, we can make an application for a plaque. I will be making a huge amount of applications to the commemorations and naming committee for the considerations of plaques on all these places."
"What I would hope is other councils throughout the country will see this and follow suit because these institutions were all over the country. These places need to be properly identified and properly marked out."
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