6/28/2023 0 Comments Belonging by Catherine Corless![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, she continues to persevere in the hope that the State, the Church and the Bons Secours Sisters will do right by the dead and the survivors alike. ![]() Since the story broke in the Connacht Tribune in 2014, it has been a constant battle for Catherine and the survivors of the Tuam Mother & Baby home to win justice for those children and those left behind. Yet, history buried in the dirt can often push its way back to the surface, like a seed reaching for the light, and through the work that Catherine has done those lost children have found a voice – if not a surrogate mother – beyond their undignified grave. ![]() Sitting at the kitchen table in her beautiful country dwelling at Carrowntanlis, between Tuam and Dunmore, Catherine remembers the 796 children from the Tuam Mother & Baby home whose bodies were dumped down a sewage tank between the 1930s and 1950s in the hope they would be forgotten. When Catherine Corless began a local history evening course in 2010, little did this unassuming home-maker realise it would set her on a journey that would change her life. Now, with her memoir in print, she tells STEPHEN GLENNON how a quiet, unassuming mother of four became a shining beacon for our time. Lifestyle – It started as a history project but Catherine Corless opened a window into one of Ireland’s darkest chapters. ![]()
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