MONTH after month, year after year we peel away another layer of the sordid history of Ireland’s mother and baby homes. In a country where falling pregnant outside marriage was viewed as
something worse than a crime, thousands of women and girls were instead
hidden away and their children taken from them.
With no real solution to the ‘problem’ of ‘illegitimacy’, the State
was happy to leave it to religious orders and a system of mother and
baby homes where, even by the standards of the day, the physical and
psychological treatment of women and the removal of their children
bordered on criminal.
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