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In reply to the discussion: Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story [View all]struggle4progress
(118,431 posts)Kathy Sheridan
Jun 18, 2014
... where were the fathers? About a dozen of the Tuam babies died with congenital syphilis. Who fathered James Frayne, dead at one month? Or Vincent Keogh? Or Josephine Tierney? Or Mary Margaret Finnegan? Or Joseph McWilliam? Or George Gavin? Or John Keane? Or Mary Elizabeth Lydon? Or Vincent Garaghan? Or Mary Kate Ruane? Or Josephine Mahoney? ...
Who fathered Joseph Anthony Burke, whose mother was described as an imbecile? Or Margaret Elizabeth Cooke, whose mother was an inmate of <a> mental hospital? ...
Between 1922 and 1950, 183 women stood trial for the murder of a newborn. Where were those fathers ?
This was the context for Tuam and the other human dustbins of moral Ireland. Not to mention the living conditions outside, such as Limericks notorious slums, where hundreds of families lived in places infested with rats and flies plus an abominable stench which pervades throughout every household, according to a 1962 report ...
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/casting-a-fresh-eye-on-the-tuam-controversy-1.1835766?page=2