The Ryan Report, which detailed a long litany of child abuse at the hands of the Irish State and the Catholic Church, has also recommended that E500,000 be budgeted for the creation of a monument near the Garden of Remembrance, the sacred ground of Irish liberty.
Read The Leaven of the Pharisees and you'll understand the scope of the scandal that continues to roil the Catholic Church.
The Office of Public Works will manage a contest and they are calling on artists to submit their ideas.
It will take a great deal of creativity.
How does a government apologize to countless thousands of its citizens for the decades of destruction? How might a sculptor encompass so much pain in a piece of bronze or a block of stone?
Interested parties can find information about the contest through the Department of Education or PublicArt.ie.
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