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Starting in March 2023, victims of sexual abuse in Saint Paul-Minneapolis who still wish to receive the Eucharist but find it too traumatic to enter a church can have the sacrament brought to them.
When I began writing, relatively late in life, I started with the place I am from, a small farm just outside Tuam, Co Galway. The grim story of the mass grave on the site of the former mother and baby home was brought to light by local historian Catherine Corless around the same time. I avoided writing about it at first, even though it affected me deeply, believing that it was not my story to tell. But as themes began to emerge in my poems, I realised that the story was inextricably linked to where I am from, and to who I am. It became something I couldn’t ignore.
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