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My Name is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home
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By: Alison O'Reilly
Publisher: Gill
Published: April 2018
Pages: 304
Categories: Biography
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9780717180424
ASIN: 0717180425

'In 2017, the remains of 796 babies were found in a septic tank on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, a home run by nuns which took in orphans and unmarried mothers until it closed in 1961. Bridget Dolan gave birth to two boys there. Her daughter Anna puts on the record the life of Bridget and all the forgotten women and children of the home In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Her second child was once again delivered at the home and was taken from her, never to be seen or heard from again. She would go on to marry a wonderful man and have a daughter, Anna Corrigan, but it was only after Bridget's death - and in the aftermath of the explosive revelations that the remains of 796 babies had been found in a septic tank on the site of the home - that Anna discovered she had two brothers her mother had never spoken about. Was her baby brother's body in the tank? Anna still doesn't know. Through Anna, this book puts on the record the life of Bridget Dolan and all the forgotten women and children of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alison O'Reilly is a documentary maker and journalist with the Irish Daily Mail. '

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