<p>James Smith, a scholar and advocate for the victims of Ireland's social service institutions including mother and child homes, reformatories, and the notorious Magdalen Laundries, warns that the government's attempts at compensation stifle openness and transparency. </p>
One historian says there may have been more to the hurried tragic marriage story of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett than first appears. A new documentary poses that Grace Gifford might have been pregnant when the couple wed in Kilmainham Gaol just hours before Plunkett was executed.