Issue #1
The 'Grace' case, Artane Industrial School names, Redress Scheme & Chrissie Tully
Welcome to Issue #1 of ‘The Institutions’. Here is this week’s news round-up.
The Report on the ‘Negotiations with Religious Orders associated with the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme’ published this week.
The Report on Ms. Sheila Nunan’s negotiations with religious orders to get offers of financial contributions was published this week. In short, only three orders returned with a monetary offer. One was the Sisters of the Bon Secours (who had run the Glenamaddy Home, later the St. Mary’s Home in Tuam, Galway) of €12.97 million. The other offers were from the Sisters of St. John of God who had offered a building with the Daughters of St. Vincent de Paul with a ‘conditional donation’ of €75,000.
You can read the press release statement on gov.ie here.
You can read the report here.
The ‘Grace’ Case
The Final Report [The Farrelly Commission] of the long-awaited ‘Grace’ case was released this week, a 2,000 page long report. ‘Grace’ is the pseudonym give to a woman born to a teen mother, in a Cork mother and baby home in November of 1978, who was under State care her whole life who faced “serious neglect”.
Read coverage on the report from RTÉ, Irish Examiner & The Journal.
A piece on the Irish Independent went live this morning about Grace’s case here.
Chrissie Tully’s story to feature in America’s New York Times
94 year old Tuam survivor, Chrissie Tully had launched a campaign to buy the council home that she lives in, should her missing son venture to try and find her. You can read about her story & campaign in the Irish Examiner here.
Her campaign to find her missing son continues as her story is to feature in the New York Times in the future.
Names of 222 Artane Industrial School boys uploaded on Project Infant
On Thursday, it had been announced that Project Infant had published the names of over 200 boys who died in St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys in Artane, Dublin. These were deaths of boys between the ages of 7 to 16 that had occurred over the course of 80 years, from 1871 to 1951.
Those names can be found on Project Infant’s website here.
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