institutions across ireland were symbols of shame. becoming pregnant outside marriage was regarded as a moral disgrace. women and girls were often sent to do exhausting work in laundries. the legacy is generations of trauma. and i went to the wee school down behind it. up here creggan, st mary s chapel. i lived with a foster family about three streets away from there. marie s experience in londonderry in the 19605 shows how fostering was open to abuse. she says a woman went to a children s home and asked this. there s a girl there and her wee brother, can i have them? like we were buy one, get one free items. she was getting paid to look after us, but we were doing all the housework. and, mentally, she was torturing me. she would lock me in a coal shed and that.
becoming pregnant outside marriage was regarded as a moral disgrace. women and girls sent to do exhausting work in laundries. the legacy is generations of trauma. i went to the wee school down behind it. up here, the creggan, st mary s chapel, i lived with the foster family about three streets away from there. marie s experience in londonderry in the 19605 shows how fostering was open to abuse. she says a woman went to aid children s home and asked this. there s a girl there and her wee brother. can i have them? like we were buy one, get one free items. she was getting paid to look after us, but we were doing all the housework. and, mentally, she was torturing me. she would lock me in a coal shed and that. when marie was 18, she became
she says a woman went to a children s home and asked this. there s a girl there and her wee brother, can i have them? like we were buy one, get one free items. she was getting paid to look after us, but we were doing all the housework. and mentally, she was torturing me. she would lock me in a coal shed and that. when marie was 18 she became pregnant and was sent across the irish border to an institution in dublin. one moment stands out in her memory. when i was going to see my son after he was born and i was brought back into the home, the nun s telling me that i couldn t cuddle him and i couldn t kiss him, that he wasn t mine. mark was one of the children born into the system. he was moved from northern ireland to the republic of ireland as a baby. he found out who his birth was after she died.
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