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Official account of Project Infant - the site dedicated to every victim of the Mother & Baby Homes in Ireland. Founder - @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie All our links: projectinfant.carrd.co

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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 09/09/2026
Contrary to politicians & media reports, there's been a continuous ongoing narrative that there are 859 #Bessborough children that haven't been found. If we're going to pursue remembering these infants, we need to be factual. It is in fact, 858. 65 children have been found. 🧵
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 16/07/2026
On this day in 2022, I started @projectinfant.ie, it's come on leaps and bounds from when it first began. On the website itself it's been a little quiet, but behind the scenes there is plenty going on and will eventually upload! Thank you to those who have supported me along the way! ❤️ #Genealogy
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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 24/04/2026
In light of the release of the #1926Census, Project Infant volunteers are currently working on adding enhanced transcripts of the 1901, 1911 and 1926 censuses for various institutions in Ireland. You can view the ones we have so far (with more on the way) here: projectinfant.ie/census
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Census – Project Infant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 30/03/2026
Thank you to @pjcoogan.bsky.social of Cork's 96FM for chatting to me about my work at @projectinfant.ie. Listen to it here: youtu.be/Rv1-C5c9Ohk / open.spotify.com/episode/0z2z... #MotherandBabyHomes
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96FM Opinion Line Interview - Daniel Loftus - March 30th 2026
YouTube video by Daniel Loftus Genealogy
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 31/12/2025
Registered a child’s death who had died in a Dublin mother and baby home that had over three thousand dead almost 87 years after she died. Will forever be glad that she now has a death record. #MotherAndBabyHomes #Genealogy
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 03/12/2025
A hearty thank you to @adultadoptee.bsky.social for letting me speak to their members about the work we do at @projectinfant.ie in trying to restore the names of those who died in mother and baby homes, industrial schools & Magdalene Laundries around Ireland… watch here! ⬇️ youtu.be/eJJ9TjeauJU?...
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Daniel Loftus speaks to adoptees about Project Infant (26 Nov 2025)
YouTube video by Adult Adoptee Movement (UK)
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 24/09/2025
I have a lot to say, but can't put it all into one post, so hopefully the image below will express it better than 280 characters could ever. It's a big change for @projectinfant.ie but one that needed to be done. Thank you all who support our work. 🩷🩵🤍 🔗: projectinfant.ie/forster
In a period of Ireland’s history where its impact still rings through to the present day, affecting thousands of families (including my own), it’s important that all institutions are afforded the same respect when remembering those who lost their lives in the institutions. 

Since Project Infant began in July 2022, it had originally served as an online tribute to mothers and children who died in Mother and Baby Institutions, County Homes and Adoption Homes, so far collectively, eleven have been recorded to date - amounting to recording to just over 6,500 names.

But things change, and Project Infant is no different.

In August 2024: the first Industrial School was added. To date, we have recorded deaths in six of them, recording the names of 452 children.

Now, in September 2025: we have added the first Magdalene Laundry to the website. This is the Magdalene Laundry which was located in Forster Street in Galway City. This new inclusion has resulted in the names of 128 women who died in the Forster Street Laundry being added to Project Infant.

We endeavour to continue our work in restoring the names of the thousands who died in Ireland’s institutions.

– Daniel Loftus, Project Infant Founder
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 21/09/2025
Whenever this happens, it's a good sign... #MotherandBabyHomes #ProjectInfant #NewAdditions
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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 21/09/2025
🩷🤍🩵 #ProjectInfant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 20/09/2025
The Good Shepherd Sisters have announced there’s work underway to update the gravesites of the High Park & Sean McDermott Street Laundries. There’s 327 names due to be added. 3 newly-discovered graves belonging to the congregation have also been found. goodshepherdsisters.ie/news-events/...
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 30/07/2025
Man (81) calls for family DNA samples for Tuam remains to extend to cousins
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Man (81) calls for family DNA samples for Tuam remains to extend to cousins
Under the Institutional Burials Act, cousins can not provide DNA for identification purposes at the Tuam Mother and Baby home excavation
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 30/07/2025
Honoured to be included alongside Ted Steede in (Below) this piece. Cousins should have been included no matter the difficulty (for what the DCEDIY are claiming) — better to have the sample then do some good ol’ DNA research to find out how they’re related, right? Catch it here. ⬇️
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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 19/07/2025
St. Joseph's Industrial School on the our website has had some additions. Full transcripts of every death cert of an Artane Industrial School death has been added. projectinfant.ie/the-homes/ar... Improved transcripts of the 1901 Census (projectinfant.ie/the-homes/ar...) and...
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 16/07/2025
3 years ago today, I took a chance. Wasn’t sure how this would work out for me. With the help of @projectinfant.ie volunteers, we’ve found 6,547 mother & baby home (adoption home etc.) children, 66 mothers and 367 Industrial School children — covering 17 institutions so far. More to come!
Project Infant logo. Three silhouettes in an oval with a gradient going from white to pink to blue as the background.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 16/07/2025
The plot is poorly kept, with the only two 'monuments', a broken plaque for Julia O'Donoghue in May 1984 & a metal cross with the wrong name inscribed: Doris Walsh instead of Ann Walsh in January 1985. Below are 13 women & 4 children from Bessborough that are buried in the plot.
In Memory Of:

Bridget McCarthy - November 22nd 1927 - 23 years
Michael Thompson - December 19th 1927 - 2 months
Joseph Grace - May 28th 1928 - 1 month
John Grace - June 22nd 1928 - 6 weeks
John Swanton - June 26th 1928 - 2 months
Catherine (Kate) O’Brien - July 27th 1929 - 25 years
Eliza (Lizzie) McCarthy - September 23rd 1932 - 26 years 
Margaret Mahony - December 5th 1940 - 40 years
Josephine Larkin - January 10th 1942 - 19 years
Mary Cuddihy - December 30th 1942 - 39 years
Nellie Grosse - September 18th 1943 - 58 years
Mabel Jessie Huckvale - January 22nd 1953 - 82 years
Elizabeth Susie Hope - September 21st 1957 - 47 years
Joan Twomey - June 25th 1958 - 62 years
Louise Bridget O’Leary - March 23rd 1974 - 81 years
Julia O’Donoghue - May 17th 1984 - 81 years
Ann Walsh - January 23rd 1985 - 85 years
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 16/07/2025
In November of 1927, the Sacred Hearts of Jesus & Mary purchased three graves, combined into one plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Cork. This is what the grave looks like now. @timbre-breda.bsky.social & I finished looking at the cemetery registers for this plot. 17 people are buried here.
A poorly kept gravesite.Broken shield style plaque in two pieces.Black Metal Cross with the name 'Doris Walsh' inscribed.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 10/07/2025
Had the legislation for this been better thought out & way more inclusive than it currently is, that number would be much higher. Not to mention, how many of the 796 missing children have family that know about them? #MotherAndBabyHomes www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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Tuam mother and baby home: 80 people come forward to give DNA to identify buried children
Around 800 babies and young children are believed to be buried in former sewer at site of home run by Bon Secours religious order
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 10/07/2025
It shouldn't require an exhumation for archives from religious orders who ran mother and baby homes to be made available. Just sayin'. #MotherAndBabyHomes
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 07/07/2025
A week today, this will begin. Let there be answers. #MotherAndBabyHomes news.sky.com/story/intern...
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International experts join mass grave excavation at former mother and baby home in Ireland
It is hoped that excavation work will lead to the identification of the remains of 796 children who are believed to have died at St Mary's home between 1925 and 1961.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 07/07/2025
Looking forward to attending the premiere of "In Plain Sight" by @nollieb.bsky.social & Camille O'Sullivan with @sharonloftus.bsky.social tomorrow. Please do try and make this if you can! Tickets are available here: www.thesourceartscentre.ie/whats-on/eve...
Promo for In Plain Sight by Noelle Brown and Camille O'Sullivan. It is taking place from July 8th to 12th 2025 at the Sacred Heart of Mary Convent.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 29/06/2025
In memory of the 923 children & 32 mothers who died between 1922 and 1994 in / connected with Bessborough House. See next post for ALT-text. [Note: We only have 890 children & 25 mothers, but we're working hard at @projectinfant.ie to try and find the remaining names.] #MotherAndBabyHomes [1/2] ❤️
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 29/06/2025
Will do more tweeting about the #Bessborough commemoration but feel this in itself deserves a separate post. Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research. A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.
Me speaking to Taoiseach, Micheál Martin.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 23/06/2025
While there is a large focus on Tuam at the moment, we can't let #Bessborough or any other #MotherAndBabyHomes with hundreds of missing burials slip by either. We need investigations. Into Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and more, then we do memorialisation. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
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Other burial sites must be identified, says survivors’ advocate after exhumation preparation begins in Tuam
Patricia Carey says she has been approached by institutional survivors hoping to find where their babies were buried
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 23/06/2025
The fact I'm still being asked "How do you get information from being in a mother and baby home?" or "How do I go about getting redress?" makes me frustrated. Not at them, but at the very campaigns that were supposed to do this. For help on getting your birth information, see: projectinfant.ie/faq
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) – Project Infant
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Long-awaited exhumation at Tuam: 'I hope we can find all the children'
Diggers and construction contractors preparing to open the ground under the supervision of some of the country’s top forensic archaeologists
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 16/06/2025
11 years it took to get to this point. May the remains of those buried here be reinterred somewhere more respectful. 24 months this is envisioned to take, and that starts now. #MotherAndBabyHomes
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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
By coincidence I was passing Tuam today as the hoarding went up around the Mother & Baby Home site. A discreet and respectful veil. It’s 11 years since I took this photo of Catherine Corless at her kitchen table. I rang her today just to say hi. 🧵
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 11/06/2025
After 11 years, the Tuam exhumation finally has a date. June 16th, 2025. This is less than a week away! At long last, the journey for proper answers will begin. #MotherAndBabyHomes
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 06/06/2025
An unusual favour. I have a chance of potentially making money from TikTok to help pay costs incurred when doing @projectinfant.ie. If you want to help, share this post, then watch the video & interact with it & follow along with me. Every little helps! vm.tiktok.com/ZNdSaqCLS/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 05/06/2025
As I am unable to add ALT-Text / if you have trouble reading the images, I have uploaded an accessible file with all the names in the images above. See: projectinfant.ie/the-homes/tu... to download / view the file.
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St. Mary’s Home, Tuam – Project Infant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 05/06/2025
With the Tuam exhumation due to begin in mid-June, these are the over 800 most important people at the centre of this. Found by Catherine Corless and shared with the world in 2014, it's taken 11 years to get to this stage. #MotherAndBabyHomes (Red = mothers) [Accessible file version, see post 2]
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 17/05/2025
The latest from us at @projectinfant.ie. Want to be a part of what we do, unearthing the names? Consider volunteering with us: projectinfant.ie/volunteer #Genealogy
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Volunteering – Project Infant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 29/05/2025
I try to visualise the work that my volunteers & I do at @projectinfant.ie, but sometimes I need it in front of me. These are the 2,452 names [mothers & children] we've found, continuing to work to the total: 3,658. It really hammers it home seeing it all there in black & white.
A photo of the St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home names.A close up of some of the St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home names in sharp focus with a slightly blurred background.A close up of some of the St. Patrick's Mother and Baby Home names in sharp focus with a slightly blurred background.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 04/06/2025
It feels really surreal to see this recorded officially, but it happened. 🥲 It’s never too late to rectify something, but it shouldn’t have had to take so long to do it.
Excerpt of a death record for Patricia Brennan, a 2 year old child who died on 16th May 1938 in Pelletstown.
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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 17/05/2025
We're delighted to share that Project Infant has recorded the deaths of 231 [2] women and [229] children who died between 1920 and 1964 in the Protestant-run Bethany Home to our website. You can view the names here: projectinfant.ie/bethany #MotherAndBabyHomes
Image of a memorial with flowers laid on the flat part of the memorial.

Image Credit: Daniel Loftus / Project Infant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 02/05/2025
86 years, 11 months & 16 days (or 31,763 days) later, it finally happened. Patricia finally has a death certificate. I am elated. ❤️
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 20/04/2025
Issue #1 of #TheInstitutions is live now. Read it here: theinstitutions.substack.com/p/issue-1 Still hoping to make this a reliable outlet for people wanting to stay in the loop about Ireland's institutions, so if you found it helpful, please consider subscribing!
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"Issue #1 The 'Grace' case, Artane Industrial School names, Redress Scheme & Chrissie Tully"
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 18/04/2025
Thanks to all that helped share the news about the Artane Industrial School names. @projectinfant.ie relies on your support be it posts being shared or (if you want to go a step further) being a volunteer [🔗] for PI. What's been done couldn't be done without them. ❤️ projectinfant.ie/volunteer
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 17/04/2025
Note: There could well be more, but I thought it'd be better to share what we do have, and then any additional names added will be posted accordingly.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 17/04/2025
For 80 years from 1871 to 1951, St. Joseph's Industrial School in Artane, Dublin, had at least 222 deaths of boys aged 7-16 years. Those names have not been made public up to this point. That changes now. You can view the names that Project Infant found here: projectinfant.ie/the-homes/ar...
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Artane Industrial School – Project Infant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 11/04/2025
Sharing something I've wanted to do for a while! 'The Institutions', a means for people wanting to get news about Ireland's institutions (mother and baby homes, industrial schools and Magdalene Laundries) all in one place. I hope to... [1/2]
Logo of 'The Institutions', at the top are three windows, in one window the silhouette of a woman's side profile, the second window has a silhouette of a mother holding a child, the third has silhouettes of two children. Below that is the publication name, below that is a door with red vertical lines, symbolising jail bars.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 11/04/2025
...use it to compile any events and news pieces (amongst other relevant pieces) and have it as a way that people are always in the know. To subscribe to it (for free), head to: theinstitutions.substack.com
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The Institutions | Daniel Loftus | Substack
News about Ireland's institutions direct to your email inbox. Click to read The Institutions, by Daniel Loftus, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 30/03/2025
Using an old post but the message is still the same. Project Infant is always looking for more volunteers to help us in our endeavours to try and unearth the names of those who died in institutions around Ireland. More info on how to be a part of that, below. ⬇️ #MotherAndBabyHomes
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 29/03/2025
I’ve got two institutions to add to the @projectinfant.ie website. One is the Bethany Home with 297 deaths, the other is the Artane Industrial School where I have 223 deaths. Neither have names made available online. (Although Bethany Home had names on a beautiful memorial. ❤️) #MotherAndBabyHomes
A memorial with an extensive inscription and decorative flowers at the base.
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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 27/03/2025
Take a look to see some of the newest #Bessborough names. ⬇️
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 26/03/2025
In conjunction with the new year of records made available on Irish Genealogy, three more #Bessborough baby deaths have been added: 1. David Burns — projectinfant.ie/the-homes/be... 2. ⁠Mary Teresa Murphy — projectinfant.ie/the-homes/be... 3. Christopher Troy ⁠— projectinfant.ie/the-homes/be...
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David Burns (1974-1974) – Project Infant
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 26/03/2025
Hey Bluesky, Please consider signing & sharing this. It doesn’t matter where you are in the world. Every signature we get on this is a voice that we can take directly to politicians — urging them to take action, that it won’t go away quietly. Let’s make it happen… ❤️ Encourage others to sign too!
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 26/03/2025
Found the name of another #Bessborough mother in the new Irish #Genealogy release today. On March 23rd, 1974 — Louise Bridget O’Leary died at the age of 81, spending time in Bessborough since 1923. 51 years of her life there. She was buried as Bridget O’Leary in late March. This is her grave. 😔
Death entry of Louise Bridget O’Leary in March of 1974.A messy poorly maintained grave slowly being reclaimed by nature with broken stones.
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Carmel Cantwell @carmelcantwell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
About time I shared this again. There is a live planning application on the grounds of #Bessborough. 761 children died on the premises. 859 are unaccounted for. 923 babies 31 women died. WHERE ARE THEY? Sign, share. Keep these children in your thoughts. www.change.org/p/stop-futur...
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Stop future development on remaining Bessborough grounds!
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Daniel Loftus @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie · 16/03/2025
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you haven’t already done one — please consider a DNA test (Ancestry, which I’d greatly recommend, have a sale on at the mo). For people like me who help #MotherandBabyHomes survivors, this is a vital tool. Here’s why… 1/ 🧵
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