Deirdre Wadding, one of the women who features in A Mother’s Voice - a music and arts project at Triskel in Cork that addresses Ireland's mother and baby homes - has experienced incomprehensible trauma. She had to give up her two sons in two different institutions, and she says the silence imposed on the women involved that has further added to the pain of the situation.
“I was sent away, I was a pariah," says Wadding. "One of the really damaging things is the impact of the imposed secrecy — that you are living with a secret for so long.”
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