And they never let us children forget it... we were punished for the
sins of our mothers... as well as our own sins... we were just little
innocent children... tiny wee babies... and we had to bare the sins of
our mothers... WHY!... because they were RAPED... it was not our
mother;s crime... it was not us little babies crime... but every day and
night... we were thrashed within an inch of our lives... because of the
sins we did not commit... we were innocent of these crimes... the nuns
put on to us wee children... Ann
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They were known as the “home
babies”, and Kevin O’Dwyer says he can still hear the clatter of their
hobnail boots on the way to primary school.
O’Dwyer, a retired school principal and longtime resident of Tuam, was reared on the old Athenry road close to the Bon Secours institution. “We’d hear the boots on the road in the morning,” he says.
