Vigils held at Bessborough to have children’s burial ground memorialised

For Ann O’Gorman, the site of the former mother and baby home in Bessborough was associated with hopelessness and unimaginable cruelty.

But Bessborough has, over time, become a sacred space for the 73-year-old survivor.

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