Maria Dromey writes:
“Just hoping you could pop this event up for your London based readers. It’s for a vigil which is planned to take place outside the Irish embassy [17 Grosvenor Place, SW1] next Thursday (July 3) at 7pm calling for an investigation into the Tuam mass grave as well as other Mother and Children homes in Ireland.It’s being organised by the Justice for 800 Tuam babies group.Thank you.”
[Today’s Irish Daily Mirror front page]
Kathleen was just 20 when she went into Airmount Maternity Hospital in Waterford to have her second child in 1966…little Patrick was transferred to Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin for a “small procedure” – and never seen again.
It was only after decades of heartache and secrecy that she discovered he was buried in a pauper’s grave in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery.
[Kathleen] also found out her little son’s heart and lungs had been removed for research purposes.
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This evening.
Scenes from a vigil at the back of Leinster House, Dublin to pay tribute to and demand justice for the mothers and children who endured cruelty at the hands of the State and the Catholic Church. Testimonies from people who experienced life at the homes were heard, along with poems and songs.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
