To be poor and the child of a single mother were among the most
dangerous things that could happen to you in the Ireland of the last
century.
So dangerous, in fact, that now we have a Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes,
established in February 2015, to find out exactly what happened to the
thousands of vulnerable women and children who lived and died in 14
homes between 1922 and 1998.
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