How I helped Philomena track down her son sold by cruel nuns: It's the film about a toddler torn from his mother that is reducing grown men to tears..

I first heard of Philomena Lee at a New Year’s party in 2004, when her daughter Jane approached me to ask for help.  She told me her mother had just revealed a shocking secret – that she, Jane, had a long-lost brother.  Could I, a former journalist, find out more?

Philomena had fallen pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952 when such things were considered shameful and had been sent to Sean Ross Abbey, a convent in Roscrea, County Tipperary, to give birth as a ‘fallen woman’.

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