Nora Corcoran of the Galway Traveller Movement and Teresa Lavina explain why Lavina’s new documentary on Irish Traveller culture, Mincéir, is so important.
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Anne Kelly Silke, a survivor of the Mother and Baby convent home in Tuam where 978 children died and were mostly buried in a decommissioned sewage tank, has told how she was treated as a slave when fostered to the home of a founding member of Fianna Fáil.
Silke claimed in a documentary, Untold Secrets, screened last Sunday at the Galway Film Fleadh, that she suffered severe physical and sexual abuse while living in the home of her foster parent.
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The documentary features testimony that the foster father was Mark Killilea Sr., a TD who was a father of six. He died in 1970.Â