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==Protestant Home for Orphan & Destitute Girls, Harolds Cross, Dublin== |
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[[File:Richard Allen’s house at Harold’s Cross, Dublin.jpg|thumb|Westbank Orphanage at 201 Harold’s Cross. It was previously the home where Richard Allen was born in 1803.]] |
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The Protestant Home for Orphan & Destitute Girls in [[Harolds Cross]], Dublin, was established around 1860 in No. 201 Harolds Cross, in the house where the Quaker, the famous slavery abolitionist [[Richard Allen (abolitionist)|Richard Allen]] was born, in the home of his parents, a large red brick building dating from the mid-18th century.[https://www.haroldscross.org/harolds-cross-60-years-ago/ Harolds Cross 60 Years Ago] www.haroldscross.org The Orphanage moved |
The Protestant Home for Orphan & Destitute Girls in [[Harolds Cross]], Dublin, was established around 1860 in No. 201 Harolds Cross, in the house where the Quaker, the famous slavery abolitionist [[Richard Allen (abolitionist)|Richard Allen]] was born, in the home of his parents, a large red brick building dating from the mid-18th century.[https://www.haroldscross.org/harolds-cross-60-years-ago/ Harolds Cross 60 Years Ago] www.haroldscross.org The Orphanage moved Wicklow in the 1940s.[http://www.patrickcomerford.com/2015/08/an-important-house-in-harolds-cross.html An Important House in Harolds Cross] Rev. Patrick Comerford Blog, www.patrickcomerford.com. |
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==See also== |
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Latest revision as of 09:54, 24 August 2023
Former Protestant orphanage in Ireland
Westbank Orphanage (sometimes called Westbank Protestant Orphanage or Westbank Children’s Home) was a privately run Protestant orphanage in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, which closed in the 1990s. Westbank was originally founded as the Protestant Home for Orphan & Destitute Girls. It moved from Harold’s Cross in Dublin to Wicklow in the late 1940s, and began to accept boys as well as girls.[1]
The regime at the orphanage was Protestant evangelical Christian and was run by Miss Adeline Mathers, a born-again Christian.[2] While it attempted to find homes for some children with Protestant families, many were retained as helpers and as a means of raising funds. Some children were sent illegally to families in Northern Ireland, England, and Scotland. The orphanage became controversial when allegations of abuses surfaced.[3]
In the 1960s children from another related and equally controversial Protestant home, the Bethany Home, were transferred to Westbank.[4] [5][6] The orphanage was designated by the Church of Ireland and the state as place to send Protestant orphans. The orphanage was run by the Westbank Greystones Protestant Orphanage Charity, was registered officially as a charity and availed of tax benefits as a result.
Former residents Westbank Orphanage, Greystones and Ovoca House in Wicklow, demanded inclusion in the Irish Governments 2002 redress scheme, and an apology.[7]
After its closure in the late 1990s records were transferred to the PACT (Protestant Adoption Society). After broadcast of the the RTE documentary, ‘Aunties Family Secrets’ (5 June 2011), Westbank administrators demanded return of the records.[8]
Protestant Home for Orphan & Destitute Girls, Harolds Cross, Dublin[edit]
The Protestant Home for Orphan & Destitute Girls in Harolds Cross, Dublin, was established around 1860 in No. 201 Harolds Cross, in the house where the Quaker, the famous slavery abolitionist Richard Allen was born, in the home of his parents, a large red brick building dating from the mid-18th century.[9] The Orphanage moved to Wicklow in the 1940s.[10]
See also[edit]
- Bethany Home, Rathgar, Dublin
- Belvedere Protestant Children’s Orphanage, Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath.
- Bethesda Chapel and Female Orphan School, Dorset Street, Dublin.
- Kirwan House, North Circular Rd, Dublin.
- Magdalen Asylum Leeson Street, Dublin.
- PACT (Protestant Adoption Society)
- Smyly Homes, Dublin.
References[edit]
- ^ The Protestant orphanage where children were whipped, beaten — and everyone had the same name The Journal, July 6, 2014.
- ^ Home is where the hurt is www.greystonesguide.ie, February 18, 2017.
- ^ ‘Auntie’s Family Secrets’, RTE One Television, 5 June 2011; Allegations that Wicklow Orphans in state…