Scandal, silence, shame: the careful retelling of a buried story A new NUI Galway production responds to the lived experiences notably missing from the report into mother and baby homes
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“I’m like a deer looking for running water. I like to be out. I don’t want to be indoors at all. I’m not a home bird.” It strikes at the heart. Who would be a home bird, emerging from a “home” like she had? Mary Cronin, a survivor of the Tuam mother and baby home, talking about her life for NUI Galway’s Tuam oral history project, evokes how survivors of such institutions feel now. Teresa echoes it in her archived oral history: “I’m slow to use the word ‘home’ because it was never a home.” They are among several survivors now central to Nochtaithe (Unveiled) which launched this week.
Galway Bay FM
1 May 2021
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Galway Bay FM Newsroom – Drama and Theatre Studies students at NUI Galway have come together to compile a series of scenes drawn from the testimonies of survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Homes that will be broadcast from 2pm today for the duration of the month.
The project, called Nochtaithe or unveiled was made with the support of the Tuam Home Alliance and is part of the Tuam Oral History project, and NUI Galway would like to acknowledge their generosity and courage in sharing their life stories
Nochtaithe was devised, performed and produced by the students, led by Dr Miriam Haughton who collaborated with Dr El Putnam as well as participating in workshops led by ANU Productions to develop skills for working with testimonies and archives in performance.