A month to St Patrickâs Day and Irelandâs diaspora around the world are warming themselves up to play the roles handed them by central casting in Dublin.
Welcome: Irish emigrants in Auckland missing Tayto crisps and Barryâs tea on Twitter; also welcome are emigrantsâ young children on TikTok, Riverdancing in Reading and Reykjavik.
Less welcome: critical artists like John Buckley McQuaid. His new album, This Is Where I Keep My Dreams, released this week on all digital platforms, is a tough love letter to a place and people he left for Denmark in 1973, but has never escaped.
Susan as a baby
Susan went onto study art at the National College of Art and Design and after working in Dublin for a time moved back to her native county where she now lives in Reaghstown with her husband and their two daughters. It was when my first daughter was born that it dawned on me that she was the only blood relative I knew, she recalls. I couldn t stop thinking about my birth mother and looking at my daughter, wondering how she was able to hand over a little person to a stranger. It haunted me for a long time.
ITV has commissioned a documentary series on the mother and baby homes scandal, focusing on the Tuam home where up to 800 babies are believed to be buried in a mass grave.The Missing Children, a
Children s Minister Roderic OâGorman warns on plans to build on former Mother and Baby Home
The Green Party TD has warned against disturbing the childrenâs burial ground at Bessborough, Cork, where 900 infants are believed to be interred in unmarked graves
09:30, 31 JAN 2021
An ageing memorial at the Bessborough Mother and Child Home Cemetary in Cork (Image: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision)
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Babies from Cork County Home were buried in coffins with adults or amputated limbs
A Bessborough survivor has said the revelations are “heartbreaking and shocking”. By Órla Ryan Saturday 30 Jan 2021, 2:52 PM Jan 30th 2021, 2:52 PM 50,837 Views 14 Comments
Toys and flowers at the Little Angels memorial plot in the grounds of Bessborough House (file photo).
Image: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie
Toys and flowers at the Little Angels memorial plot in the grounds of Bessborough House (file photo).
Image: Laura Hutton/RollingNews.ie
A NUMBER OF babies who died at Cork County Home were buried in the same coffins as adults, or in coffins containing amputated limbs.