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.
Galway Bay FM
12 January 2021
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Government Statement on the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters)
Tuesday January 12 2020
The Government today (12 January) approved the publication of the Final Report of the Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters).
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman T.D., commented:
“The publication of the Commission’s report is a landmark moment for the Irish State. 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.
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.”
Harrowing report details sub-human conditions and slavery endured inside Mother and Baby Homes
It is estimated that as many as 9,000 infants died in the 18 homes under the remit of the report between 1922 and 1998
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