In 2012 an amateur historian in the small town of Tuam in Galway (in the west of Ireland) published an article in a local journal about the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home. Catherine Corless, then in her late 50s, had quite recently gained an interest in local history through attending an evening course. She was in the process of becoming what Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheál Martin would call a “tireless crusader for dignity and truth”.
In 2012 an amateur historian in the small town of Tuam in Galway (in the west of Ireland) published an article in a local journal about the deaths of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home. Catherine Corless, then in her late 50s, had quite recently gained an interest in local history through attending an evening course. She was in the process of becoming what Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Micheál Martin would call a “tireless crusader for dignity and truth”.