- Bessborough Mother Baby Home - Wikipedia
The Bessborough Mother Baby Home, (also known as the Bessborough Sacred Heart Home) was a home for mothers and their children that operated in Blackrock, County Cork, Ireland, from 1922 until 1998
- Inside Bessborough: Everything you should know from the . . . - Cork Beo
Of these children, 923 died - and it's feared that as many as 600 babies lie in unmarked graves at the institution Bessborough was owned and run by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and was regarded as one of the first ‘special’ institutions for unmarried mothers and their children
- The girls of Bessborough - BBC News
At Bessborough, the long rooms of the girls’ quarters were on the top floor, looking out towards the cemetery The nuns called them all “girls”, but in truth the residents were anything from
- Bessborough home: What we already know - RTÉ
The report found that more than 900 babies and children died while they were residents of Bessborough The commission considered it "highly likely" that some of these were buried on the campus,
- In the Borough of Bess - The Irish Aesthete
There remains a great deal more to tell about Bessborough, its destruction, reconstruction and subsequent history, so rather in the manner of Country Life, today’s piece finishes with the words: To be concluded next week
- 1 in 7 babies born in Ireland’s baby homes died. Clair Wills uncovers . . .
“During 1943, three out of every four children born in Bessborough died – a mortality rate of 75%,” reported the BBC Her cousin, Mary, who was born there in January 1955, was one of the
- Mothers and babies: ‘The day I arrived in Bessborough, I landed in the . . .
Places such as Bessborough, run by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, were widely known as mother and baby “homes”, but they are referred to as institutions throughout the book
- Bessborough survivor: ‘What was it for, why were we punished?’
A survivor of the Bessborough mother and baby institution has spoken about the death, more than 60 years ago, of her baby, and said she blames the Catholic Church for putting ‘hatred’ toward single mothers into the minds of Irish people
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