LMFM By Michael Carolan A figurine of a young girls seen at the memorial commemorating more than 200 children from Bethany Mother and Child Home at Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Gardaí are now appealing to anyone who wishes to report a crime relating to a pregnancy or abuse involving their stay at a Mother and Baby Home to contact them.
Gardaí are appealing to anyone who wants to report a crime relating to their stay at a Mother and Baby home, to contact them.
Crimes relating to pregnancy or abuse can be reported via email, phone or by calling to a local Garda station and anyone who reports a crime will receive personal contact within 48 hours.
By Irish America Staff
Appearing before an Irish-American group in St. Paul, Minnesota on St. Patrick’s Day, 1882, Oscar Wilde was introduced not as a rising literary star, but as “the son of one of Ireland’s noblest daughters of a daughter who in the troublous times of 1848 by the works of her pen and her noble example did much to keep the fire of patriotism burning brightly.”
Oscar may have been surprised by such enthusiasm, but it was no overstatement long before he dazzled audiences and critics with his own writing, the inflammatory patriotic poetry of his mother, Lady Jane Francesca Wilde familiarly known as “Speranza” had made her a hero of Irish nationalists across the world. Until his most famous works made him a household name in his own right, Oscar Wilde, as the New York newspaper
Here is some of the key information uncovered:
– What were the institutions and why are they being examined?
The operation of homes for unmarried mothers and babies, Magdalene Laundries and to a lesser extent baby homes which operated in Northern Ireland until 1990 have been examined by academics.
These institutions have historically been shrouded in secrecy.
Those who experienced them have levelled accusations of abuse, cruelty and inappropriate physical labour such as scrubbing floors, even in the final stages of pregnancy, under an ethos of shame, and being described as fallen women.
– How many people went through these institutions?
It is estimated that more than 14,000 girls and women went through the doors of mother and baby homes, Magdalen Laundries and industrial homes between 1922 and 1990. This figure is more than double the number previously thought.
Light shed on Northern Ireland’s mother and baby homes
Here is some of the key information uncovered by the 500-page research report.
A research report has been published which sheds light for the first time on the operation of institutions in Northern Ireland for unmarried mothers and babies as well as industrial homes known as Magdalene Laundries (Niall Carson/PA)
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A significant 500-plus page research report has been published which sheds light for the first time on the operation of institutions in Northern Ireland for unmarried mothers and babies as well as industrial homes known as Magdalene Laundries.
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Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley: The story of Derek Leinster and the Bethany Home tells us we have more to learn
NUIG historian Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley says the recent Commission report into mother and baby homes needed to have a deeper look at Protestant institutions and the neglect of children like Derek. By Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley Sunday 24 Jan 2021, 8:30 AM Jan 24th 2021, 8:30 AM 20,955 Views 5 Comments Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley
DEREK LEINSTER WAS born in the Bethany Home, Dublin in 1941.
For the past 30 years, he has campaigned tirelessly for the inclusion of Bethany and other Protestant institutions into State inquiries and redress schemes.
It would be hard to have studied or engaged with the history and experience of Ireland’s institutions without know