Report lays bare scandal of brutally misogynistic homes for unmarried mothers in Republic of Ireland The infants graveyard at Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, which was mother and baby home operated by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary from 1930 to 1970. James Ward, PA 12 January, 2021 15:32
An overgrown water feature at the rear of Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Tipperary, which was mother and baby home operated by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary from 1930 to 1970.
The Mother and Baby Homes report has exposed “a stifling, oppressive and brutally misogynistic culture” in the Republic, the Children’s Minister has said.
Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration Roderic O’Gorman (Niall Carson/PA)
He said: “The Commission’s investigation reveals the truth of what happened, within the walls of Mother and Baby Homes and beyond them, to many thousands of women and children.
“Importantly, it also inscribes for posterity, those journeys, those heartbreaks, those truths in the words of those who experienced them first-hand.
“The report makes clear that for decades, Ireland had a stifling, oppressive and brutally misogynistic culture, where a pervasive stigmatisation of unmarried mothers and their children robbed those individuals of their agency and sometimes their future.”