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Vow of Silence
- A Convent Home Run by Monsters and a Secret That Haunted Us for 50 Years
- Narrated by: Deirdre O'Connell
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
A convent children's home run by monsters. A heart-breaking family secret that haunted us for 50 years.
Suzanne suffered five heart attacks and made it through open heart surgery. But even that pales in comparison to the horrors she faced as a young girl.
Her childhood became the ‘stuff of nightmares’ after her father passed away and her mother, unable to get a job in Ireland, had to seek work in London. So ‘Mammy’ was forced into the heart-breaking decision to put Suzanne and her five siblings into church-run orphanages in Dublin while she worked away. It was just meant to be temporary.
Her life soon became a daily struggle to avoid beatings with canes and rosary beads. Suzanne and the other children worked from dawn until midnight, living on disgusting scraps of food, while the nuns dined on fresh fruit, meat and cakes that the ‘orphans’ had cooked for them. Suzanne tried her best to shield her younger sisters from the terror of these hateful ‘women of God’. But it was only the beginning of their troubles....
Eventually, their mother returned from London after four years with enough money to take her children out, and the family was reunited. However, too scared to speak out, the children vowed to take the horrors they had experienced at the orphanages to their graves.
What really happened behind those church doors? This is Suzanne's heart-breaking and touching story.
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- Tracy Davies
- 03-06-23
fantastic true story very sad at times
sad but lovely true story well written. had a few tears in my eyes at times opens your eyes to what really happens in these places. just a pity you never know if the nuns got any punishment. but hey karma always comes around. definitely recommend
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- Zoe
- 08-05-23
Amazing strength
I wished there could have been an outcome where the nuns were punished for their behaviour. But I guess, if there really is a god, then they have been.
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- stella johnson
- 26-07-22
my thoughts definatly a five star story
compelling sad couldnt stop listening to it hard to believe of the evil there is
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- sabrina
- 08-06-22
great true story
loved it and has inspired me and im also looking to tell my Da's story
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