IRELAND
Limerick Leader
by Mike Dwane
Published on the 23 June 2014
CITY archivist Jacqui Hayes says that to this day she receives inquiries from people born in the former City Home looking for information on their birth mothers.
Campaigners have criticised an indication from Minister for Children Charlie Flanagan that the former city and county homes will not form part of the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes and forced adoptions.
While Limerick did not have a religious-run mother and baby home on the scale of St Mary’s in Tuam, revelations around which have resulted in the inquiry, unmarried mothers were sent by their families to local authority run institutions in the early days of independence.
There is also evidence that unmarried mothers in Limerick were hidden away from view behind the walls of Mount St Vincent, run by the Sisters of Mercy on O’Connell Avenue, and that after they had their children, women were sent to the Good Shepherd Laundry on Clare Street.
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