Screaming rooms and Banished Babies: The sad history of where I was born

THE ORDER OF the Sacred Heart nuns arrived in Ireland in 1922 within months of the formation of the Irish Free state after the civil war.  They were invited over from England by the newly-formed Irish government to deal with the ‘problem’ of women having babies outside wedlock.
They bought a 200 acre farm in Bessborough, county Cork and began operating a Mother and Baby home. They later expanded and bought Conville House and grounds in Roscrea which they renamed Sean Ross Abbey.

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