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ℹ️ For some time now, I had been mulling over the best course of action with publicising the #Bessborough names. I shared the list of names a few days ago giving the details of every child who died from 1922 to 1998, with the last death being in 1994. I know some individuals...

I'm incredibly disappointed by @CorkCityCouncil [CCC] in their handling of my Freedom of Information Request [FOI] and how I am no closer to answers over 2 months later. I was very clear in what I was after - to examine the burial registers of St. Joseph's & St. Finbarr's... 🧵

I filled the form on May 2nd, in the CCC lobby & handed it in. I would receive no acknowledgement of its receipt until May 13th, over a week's worth of working days later. I was told that I would receive a response by May 30th...

But I had received no such thing from them until *JUNE 26th*, nearly a month after. But it didn't directly answer my request, instead they referred me to others, one from the COIMBH Preferring to look at the source material myself I wrote back saying I want to arrange access.

...but got an auto-reply from the individual who answered my query above. They were out of office on leave and would not be back until July 28th. They stated to contact another individual, so I had. I've since written to this other individual with no response.

It's been a week and I've gotten absolutely nothing. Cork City Council - to say I'm disappointed to say the least is an understatement. I wish to actually get a response to my correspondence with an actual result, not being left in the dark for months.

Cork City Council doesn't honour the stated time frames for replies. Cork City Council doesn't understand the legal constraints of those who were involved with the MBH Commission of Investigation. Most frustratingly, Cork City Council refuses to answer simple yes / no questions.

Looking forward to attending the premiere of "In Plain Sight" by Noelle Brown (Cllr. Noelle Brown) & Camille O'Sullivan (Camille O'Sullivan) with Mum tomorrow. Please do try and make this if you can! Tickets are available here: thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/event…

It shouldn't require an exhumation for archives from religious orders who ran mother and baby homes to be made available. Just sayin'. #MotherAndBabyHomes irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4166…

It's surreal to think that after 11 years, tomorrow is the day that the Tuam exhumation will begin. 796 children unaccounted. With a test exhumation carried out in 2017 / 2018 - the preservation methods put in place that would last 6 months, may be gone, but... Let it begin.

3 years ago today, I took a chance. Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me. With Project Infant volunteers help, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions. More to come!

In November of 1927, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary purchased three graves, combined into one plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork. This is what the grave looks like now. TeenyTimbre & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot. 17 people are buried here.

The plot is poorly kept, with the only two 'monuments', a broken plaque for Julia O'Donoghue in May 1984 & a metal cross with the wrong name inscribed: Doris Walsh instead of Ann Walsh in January 1985. Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.

According to Institutional Burials Act 2022, Section 8, which refers to ‘Manifestly Inappropriate Burials’ all of the highlighted subsections apply to #Bessboro The government is not above the law. The government must be compelled to act #Justice #TheForgottenDead

Dear Norma Foley T.D — act on your own government’s legislation. For too long, #Bessborough has been excluded from an investigation. It is there, on the Statute Book website, in black & white. The government needs to act. #MotherAndBabyHomes

Can we please give it up for, Daniel? He’s worked tirelessly on this and he never gives up. He’s an amazing young man.

St. Joseph's Industrial School on the Project Infant has had some additions. Full transcripts of every death cert of an Artane Industrial School death has been added. projectinfant.ie/the-homes/arta… Improved transcripts of the 1901 Census (projectinfant.ie/the-homes/arta…) and...

...the 1911 Census (projectinfant.ie/the-homes/arta…) have been uploaded too. [The 1911 Census especially was in dire need of it as there was details not transcribed on the National Archive's census website for over 300 people in the Industrial School] All can be viewed on links above.

A buried scandal that's haunted Ireland for decades, with excavations now underway for the remains of hundreds of babies at a home for unwed mothers— their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. CNN’s Donie O'Sullivan on this painful story.

Christiane Amanpour Donie O'Sullivan Christiane, it's not just Tuam where there are hundreds of missing babies buried who knows where. Bessborough, where my mother was born has hundreds of missing children. Sean Ross Abbey has hundreds of missing children. And these are the institutions we know about so far.