TV Review: Sifting through the remains of the truth

Sometimes, it seems the social history of the Irish state is a series of inescapable nightmares

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‘History,” says Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses, “is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.’’ Sometimes, it seems the social history of the Irish state is a series of inescapable nightmares, many of which involve the treatment of women, infants and children in an apparatus of institutions, run in the main by religious ...