
Bertaut
Unexpectedly impressive
I couldn't get my mind around how the sisters could leave that home in 1961, close the gates when it closed down, with 796 children buried beneath in the tunnels in coffins, a lot of them in the sewage tank area as we now know. What kind of mentality would leave that place without acknowledging that so many burials were there, so many precious lives were lost? The ideal would be to exhume those little bodies and just show them some dignity and reverence and to perhaps re-inter them in the main Tuam graveyard which is only across the road.
- Catherine Corless; Receiving the Bar of Ireland's Human Rights Award, October 2017
Taking its inspiration from the history of Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, sp...