Dan Barry’s “The Lost Children of Tuam”
published in the New York Times last week draws a searing portrait of
Irish society; the society in which the Tuam Baby Home operated
(1925-1961) and the society in which Catherine Corless fights to dignify
infant remains interred on the grounds of the former institution
(2012-2017).
Ireland seems no closer to the truth of what happened to these and other children born to the nation’s institutional care system. “The Lost Children of Tuam” foregrounds the need for a truth telling mechanism to cultivate understanding and thereby help survivors come to terms with the system’s legacy of pain and suffering.
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/tuam-dead-babies-scandal-tip-iceberg
Ireland seems no closer to the truth of what happened to these and other children born to the nation’s institutional care system. “The Lost Children of Tuam” foregrounds the need for a truth telling mechanism to cultivate understanding and thereby help survivors come to terms with the system’s legacy of pain and suffering.
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/tuam-dead-babies-scandal-tip-iceberg