Category Archives: Tuam Babies

It’s time to excavate at at Tuam now

Posted on July 8, 2018 by Adrienne

Saturday morning my Mam rings. I can hear the dismay in her voice straightaway. I breathe in. EXHALE: The results of that weird and cumbersome and insulting Consultation process by Galway County Council for the Minister, in connection with the … Continue reading →

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Peace for whom in Tuam?

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Adrienne

  I was confused to read on the front page of the Tuam Herald Wednesday 22nd February that “Tuam’s Garden of Peace, the last remaining aspect of the town’s Mother and Baby Home, is being added to the Record of Protected … Continue reading →

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Words from Pennsylvania: Tuam Mother & Baby Home

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Adrienne

Mam gets calls and visits all the time, from people directly affected by the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, and also by researchers in various fields  – human rights, social history, and anthropology, for example. Dr James A. Houck, whose … Continue reading →

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Considering the Burial ground – Tuam Babies

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Adrienne

Whenever I visit my parents in my homeplace near Tuam, I catch up with Mam’s ongoing work to research the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. I’ve seen the multiple and varied representations of the burial ground that have been published in the media over … Continue reading →

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Seminar: “Investigating Tuam Babies: a Question of Human Rights”

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Adrienne

Mam will be speaking at a public seminar at National University of Ireland on Monday next, 10th of November, 5PM: “Investigating Tuam Mother and Babies Home: a Question of Human Rights” Venue: NUIG MRI Annex MRA201 Because she feels so … Continue reading →

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Judging the Past

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Adrienne

In a recent Tuam Herald Viewpoint article 9th October 2014 headlined “The harsh facts of life in 1946 put modern controversies in a different perspective”, Joe Coy claimed that “we cannot judge the actions of the past by today’s standards” … Continue reading →

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The Dismaying PR of the Bon Secours

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Adrienne

I recently gained a dismaying insight into the style of PR that the Sisters of the Bon Secours are engaging in with regard to the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.  An email written by Ms Terry Prone of the Communications Clinic, representing … Continue reading →

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Tuam and the Legacy that Lives

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Adrienne

It was in early 2012 that Mam called me with news of her findings regarding the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, managed by the Sisters of the Bon Secours from 1925 until it closed in 1961. The whole world knows … Continue reading →

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An International Publicity Frenzy and my Mother

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Adrienne

No, my mother has not made any retraction in relation to her findings about the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. No, my mother did not “admit” that anything in her findings was “impossible”. My mother, Catherine Corless, is as consistent … Continue reading →

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