IRELAND
Irish Mirror
Jun 08, 2014 By Adelina Campos
Shocking claim after woman’s 35-year search to find her infant cousin’s burial place
Every household in Ireland could be rocked by the forgotten babies inquiry, a mum-of-two warned last night.
Mary Frances Joyce, who has been trying to find the grave of her infant cousin for more than three decades, said: “Ireland needs to get its head out of the sand because tens of thousands of women were sent to mother-and-baby institutions and had children there.
“I don’t think there is a family in this country that hasn’t got a dark secret hanging over them somewhere.”
Mary’s cousin was born at Castlepollard, Co Westmeath, one of the largest mother-and-baby homes in the country on October 4, 1950.
She died just over two months later but there is no burial record for her.
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