Season 5 Episode 2 ‘Breaking Secrets and Silence’ What happens when your private family story, your deepest secret, is also a national secret of shame and silence? Caelainn Hogan, author of the ground-breaking ‘Republic of Shame’ is the guest of Panti Bliss in this episode and she’s joined by singer Jess Kavanagh, whose mum was born, black Irish, in a mother and baby home, and film-maker Paul Duane, who was himself born in Sean Ross Abbey, the home depicted in the film ‘Philomena’. Jess shares a poem she wrote, Four Girls in Blue, about High Park, the Magdalene laundry, and orphanage, in north city, Dublin, and performs Hozier’s song ‘Nina Cried Power’ while Caelainn reads an extract from the book - 'Republic of Shame' which is out in paperback July 16 2020. pantisocracy.ie/s5e2/ for more https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309/309348/republic-of-shame/9780241984123.html Republic of Shame now available in paperback https://barqmusic.bandcamp.com/ http://www.barqmusic.com/