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It’s taken me a long time but I’m learning to do this. Better late than never.

Of children aged under one year who died in Ireland in 1931, ninety two percent were in institutions across the country. There were 13 born in Galway that year three died outside the institutions. In Offaly all ten died within institutions. - source DLGPH Report 1932

I’ll be speaking tomorrow morning as team of experts from Colombia, Spain, the UK, Canada, Australia, and the US break ground on the site of Tuam #MotherAndBabyHome to recover remains of 796 babies + children lost between 1925-1961. #TuamBabies

Two Kent women who were forcibly adopted when they were just weeks old say they need the government to formally apologise to help them recover from the trauma. Tap below to read more: bbc.in/40PObS8

Listening to RTÉ One Morning Ireland Fr. Shay Cullen, a Columban missionary priest from here, who runs the PREDA rescue mission for those caught up in sex industry, exploited due to poverty. Interviewed by Brian Dobson it is a documentary worth watching . Part of this series⬇️

For the day that’s in it. As they break ground on the site of the former Tuam #MotherAndBabyHome a reminder that tenders for coffins appeared in the local newspaper in the 1930s. See below

…”History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave… But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme….” - Séamus Heaney Prayer of #Hope placed on #ChristmasTree in 2018 by survivor Michael Tuam #MotherAndBabyHome

My short interview earlier on Newstalk Breakfast with Ciara Kelly on #Excavation works at the site of Tuam #MotherAndBabyHome Titled:- “For some, it’s too late' - Tuam Mother and Baby Home excavation begins” newstalk.com/news/for-some-…

On 2nd September 1954 fourteen boys were released from #Letterfrack #IndustrialSchool on “supervision certificate” I’ve never met a child who was released early on such certificate and wonder what it meant. Did authorities keep tabs on children as tho they were criminals? 💔

They left, thousands of unskilled young men by boat reaching #Liverpool and travelling to cities for work and a place to sleep. The pub became a place all too familiar where they left their cheques drinking to dull the pain of forced emigration. Many never returned. #OurPeople