The last letters of Ann Lovett and her sister Trisha
Ann Lovett’s death 39 years ago was not only a tragedy for her family but also an infamous public scandal. Her sister Trisha died by suicide less than three months later
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Ann Lovett’s death 39 years ago was not only a tragedy for her family but also an infamous public scandal. Her sister Trisha died by suicide less than three months later
This is also a story of Ireland — how a girl could end up giving birth alone in a grotto, and what systems and strata of social control led to these circumstances?
Almost 40 years after the 15-year-old schoolgirl died after giving birth in a grotto, a new film tackles a difficult and sensitive subject
On Saturday, February 4, 1984, at the end of The Late Late Show, Gay Byrne took his customary glance through the Sunday papers and stopped at a headline. “Girl, 15, dies giving birth in a field,” he read out, then added, “nothing terribly exciting there” before throwing the newspaper to the studio floor.
Ann Lovett died on January 31st 1984, after giving birth at a grotto in Co Longford