Stolen identity: The phone call that rewrote a Bessborough survivor's life

Jean Dunne writes about stolen identity, lost time and living with the relics born of fear, shame and ostracisation

Jean Dunne as a baby. Little did she know that a conversation she would have at the age of 50 would change her life forever.

Jean Dunne* was born in Bessborough mother and baby home in the late 1960s. Two decades after she met her birth mother, she got a phone call at the age of 50 that changed everything she thought she knew about herself. 

Here, she writes about stolen identity, lost time and living with the relics born of fear, shame and ostracisation.