Tears For Tuam

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Deora Dé Fuschia.

Tears of God.

Breeda writes:

Holly Mullarkey, clay artist and poet, has completed her most recent piece to honour Tuam babies and survivors of the former Mother and Baby Homes.

Earlier Holly planned supporting survivors making the teardrop shaped boats in the video above, but Covid19 put paid to those plans.

Undeterred Holly, who worked with Clay Galway in a collective for Galway 2020, set about constructing boats out of clay to represent containers of stories needing to be shared as various groups experiencing marginalisation merged for a performance on Grattan Road Beach in Galway.

Holly’s dedication to the story of the ‘Children of Tuam’ is captured and the poem recalls the lost lives of the 796 babies and children.

Holly Mullarkey

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9 thoughts on “Tears For Tuam

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      Slavery and black market selling of babies.

      How many nuns in Tuam had malnutrition as a cause of death, as opposed to the women and children in their care, each worth a weekly stipend the equivalent of around €120 a week. That’s a lot of dosh for kids to die from bad nuitrition.

  1. Toby

    “constructing boats out of clay to represent containers of stories needing to be shared as various groups experiencing marginalisation ”

    Sharing our stories, making our voices heard, giving agency to our experience, speaking our truth…. and more infantilising terms, patronising and packaging victimhood as “content”

    Thank God for social media, now everyone gets a go.

        1. millie

          Oh but I am. I eat baby foetuses for breakfast every morning. I can share a recipe if you like.

          I make a cracking moonbat pie too.

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