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As the report outlines, this mood of sexual repression extended to “evil literature”, “immodesty in female dress”, “the dangers of dancing” and “condemnation of company-keeping”.
The torturing with shame of mothers has had such a profound effect that women whose children were adopted decades ago often still cannot come to terms with forming a relationship with them if they try to get in touch. They can still struggle to bring their parallel lives together.
We may live in a supposedly liberal, tolerant republic, but adoption is still covered in a veil of secrecy.
Another publication laying bare the injustices of the past.
Injustices that continue to have an impact on Irish society today.
The week began with a leak containing aspects of the report by the Commission of Investigation Report into Mother and Baby Homes.
Survivors woke on Sunday to discover some of the information they had waited so long to receive was in the public domain.
They were furious.
It compounded their frustration with an investigative process of which they were weary.
Since 2015, deadlines had been missed due to the workload of the commission, more recently it was affected by Covid-19; yet survivors waited patiently for the final report.
Baby home survivor brands Taoiseach and Tánaiste sickening double act
Government criticised for failure to commit to a referendum on acccess over adoption records
Artworks at the grotto on an unmarked mass grave at the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire
Fri, 15 Jan, 2021 - 12:30
Neil Michael
Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar have been dubbed a “sickening double act” over their respective statements about the mother and baby homes scandal.
The Chair of the Coalition of Mother And Baby home Survivors (CMABS) has attacked them for not committing outright to a referendum on access over adoption records.
Irish prime minister Micheal Martin on Wednesday formally apologised for the treatment of unmarried women and their babies in state and church-run homes, where thousands of children died over decades.