It is Christmas time and the season has him reflecting on his own identity. In "Small Things Like These", Bill Furlong is the hardworking father of five girls who supports his family by running his own coal supply company. Arrangements were made to adopt out the illegitimate babies while the women were hidden, mistreated and brutalized. Unwed mothers, fallen women, any unacceptable females were sent there to be removed from society. The Magdalene Laundry saga is a horrible chapter in Irish history. No one argues with God in the confession booth. Authority is not questioned when infallibility is the ace in the hole. Claustrophobic restrictions governed what was acceptable and what was shameful. Priests and bishops dictated when one's path led to heaven and when it led to damnation. The power of the Catholic Church has always cloaked Irish society.
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