A quest for the secrets of Ireland's shame-industrial complex.
Caelainn Hogan was born in Dublin in 1988. Her journalism has featured in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Yorker (online), VICE Magazine, The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, The Irish Times and The Dublin Review. Republic of Shame is her first book.
At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so
in the true stories here.
[A] furious, necessary book
Achingly powerful ... There will be many people who don't want to
read Republic of Shame, for fear it will be too much, too dark, too
heavy. Please don't be afraid. Read it. Look it in the eye
*Irish Times*
Utterly brilliant. Please read it
Hogan's captivatingly written stories of people who were consigned
to what she calls the "shame-industrial complex" puts faces - many
old now, and lined with pain - to the clinical data. ...
Brilliant
*Sunday Times*
[A] searing account of the Church's treatment of women during its
period of dominance over Irish society ... It is never less than
compelling
*Irish Independent*
Republic of Shame is a careful, sensitive and extremely well
written book - but it is harrowing. It would break your heart in
two
Riveting, immensely insightful and horrifically recognisable
A must read for everyone
Compelling ... devastatingly human, [Republic of Shame] will make
you shake with sadness and anger
*RTÉ Guide*
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