IRELAND
Irish Independent
Eilish O’Regan
March 11 2017
Peter Mulryan (73) discovered he had a sister only two years ago – and now his greatest wish is that she is still alive so they can make up for decades of lost time.
Mr Mulryan, from Derrymullen in Ballinasloe, Co Galway, is now ill with cancer and said he had no access to files about Marian Bridget Mulryan.
It is thanks to Catherine Corless, the Tuam historian, that he found out his sister was listed among those who had died at just nine months of age and was buried in the nearby grounds.
He has a birth record, a death certificate and the cause of death, convulsions.
But because the records are so unreliable he clings to the hope that she may have been adopted and that is why he desperately needs to see her file.
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