Yesterday.
Blackrock, county Dublin.
ESB writes:
‘Passed this place in Blackrock yesterday. I saw it in the Missing Children documentary and never realised it was in Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown. Not many people are aware of the history of Neptune House and how it ended up, Irish style, including those that can now afford to live there.’
Meanwhile, via Youwho:
‘Between 1947 and 1975, 572 children are reported as being “exported” to America from Temple Hill House. Babies were sent to St Patrick’s Infant Hospital, Temple Hill before being adopted. Mothers did not live at Temple Hill and from the death register it would appear that these woman were in the main domestic servants, their children registered in large numbers before they reached 6 months as dying from gastroenteritis or similar. In the late 1980’s the house was purported to have been used by Sinn Féin and the Irish government for secret meetings in the lead up to the peace talks.’