Ireland

Babies and nuns in Ireland

Whitewashing the sins of the state and the church in Ireland

25 May 2021 by Janet H. Anderson

In January, the report of an enquiry in the history of Ireland’s mother and baby homes was published. It intended to draw a line under last century’s notorious abuses in government and church-run institutions. Instead it has been [...]

Bon Secours survivors in Ireland

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The scandal of the “banished babies” in Ireland

30 April 2021 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

Over several decades and into the 1970’s, thousands of unmarried women were forced into mother and baby homes run by the church or the state in Ireland. 50,000 babies were taken away from their mothers. Women from 12-years old and [...]