Kathleen McGuire: A man’s lifelong search for his Derry mother
‘My mother was punished and ostracised for the crime of having sex’
Kathleen McGuire and son Mark McCollum
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“My mother Kathleen was a wee Derry woman. For my entire life the Catholic Church and the authorities hid her identity from me; when I finally found out who she was last year it was too late, she’d already died.”
Mark McCollum’s mother, Kathleen McGuire, grew up in the Bogside in the 1960s.
She fell pregnant following a relationship with a Donegal man who served in the British Army at Ebrington Barracks.