From top: St Patrick’s Home on the Navan Road in Dublin which
was initially known as Pelletstown and a table in Dr Lindsey
Earner-Byrne’s book Mother and Child outlining the number of infant
deaths in four mother and baby homes in 1933.
To recap.
On Sunday, May 25, Alison O’Reilly in the Irish Mail on Sunday reported that it’s believed 796 babies were buried in a disused septic tank by Bon Secours nuns between 1925 and 1961.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/06/05/what-about-dublin/
To recap.
On Sunday, May 25, Alison O’Reilly in the Irish Mail on Sunday reported that it’s believed 796 babies were buried in a disused septic tank by Bon Secours nuns between 1925 and 1961.
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/06/05/what-about-dublin/