'I never stopped looking for you.' Mothers and children of our most barbaric institutions

This Mother’s Day, as we remember our mothers and all they did for us, we should remember too, the mothers and children whose lives have been blighted by Ireland’s barbaric mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries, and those institutions’ legacy of heartbreak and pain
'I never stopped looking for you.' Mothers and children of our most barbaric institutions

Mothers and children whose lives have been blighted by Ireland’s barbaric institutions and their legacy of heartbreak and pain write letters for Mother's Day

A Mother’s Loss

by Sheila O’Byrne 

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