A slight girl all of 6, she leaves the modest
family farm, where the father minds the livestock and the mother keeps a
painful secret, and walks out to the main road. Off she goes to primary
school, off to the Sisters of Mercy.
Her auburn hair in ringlets, this child named Catherine is bound for Tuam, the ancient County Galway town whose name derives from a Latin term for “burial mound.” It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archdiocese, a proud distinction announced by the skyscraping cathedral that for generations has loomed over factory and field.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html
Her auburn hair in ringlets, this child named Catherine is bound for Tuam, the ancient County Galway town whose name derives from a Latin term for “burial mound.” It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archdiocese, a proud distinction announced by the skyscraping cathedral that for generations has loomed over factory and field.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html
