Deletion

Deletion is a fictional television documentary set in 2016, written by award-winning Irish author Peter Paul Hartnett, aka PP Hartnett. 


God bless the man, he's taking on the Pope, staging a punk protest against the Catholic Church. Deletion is a moral work about immoral acts by so-called men (and women) of God. The moral perspective shines a light upon decades of global historic sexual abuse which has brought the Catholic Church to its knees. The work features four 'survivors' of a Catholic School, who release punk rock tracks recorded nearing the end of the traumatic period of abuse, 1975-1976. 


Forty years after leaving a school described as Hell on Earth within the work, the piece rings true, eerily convincing, addressing the legacy of failings by the Catholic Church in a brutal manner.