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Whether you realise it or not every single household in #Ireland has a connection to a #MotherandBabyHome, a #MagdaleneLaundry &/or an #IndustrialSchool!
In my household there are 6 connections!
When the details of the exclusions from the #MotherandBabyHome #RedressScheme were made public…..
March 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My Dad learned his trade as a carpenter in the 1940s in SW Ireland, at Baltimore #industrialschool. When he died in 1993, some of his tools were passed to his g grandson, aged 6. The boy took it upon himself to restore and engrave this one (w a bit of help). I'm chuffed with it
February 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
The Sisters of Mercy with some of the "inmates."
The girls were assigned numbers. #industrialschool
January 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
On way to Dublin, my reading for the next few days. There's so much work coming out on this topic and an area that needs to be spoken of
#boy11963 #Johncameron #industrialschool
#hachette
October 6, 2023 at 5:29 AM