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@projectinfant.ie

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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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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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 22/12/2024

This latest addition brings the total number of children on Project Infant to 6,380. The work Project Infant does relies on volunteers, if you want to be part of bringing these names to light, please visit our volunteering page at: projectinfant.ie/volunteer [4/4]

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Underneath, it says: 6,380 children added. 52 mothers added. 14 institutions added as of December 22nd 2024.

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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 22/12/2024

...4 of those were tubercular-related deaths. Additionally, the 38 additional names from the research volunteers conducted which @carmelcantwell.bsky.social and @danielloftus.projectinfant.ie followed up at the GRO with are also uploaded. [2/4]

1932

April 8th, Basil Blair, 3 months, Wasting from birth

1935

March 13th, Josephine Finn, 2 months, Cachexia & Rickets
May 19th, Patrick Roche, 2 months, Pulmonary tuberculosis
August 31st, David McCarthy, 2 months, Gastroenteritis & Cardiac Failure

1937

July 9th, Stephen Desmond, 2 years and 10 months, Gastroenteritis & Cardiac failure

1938

June 26th, Christopher Downey, 6 weeks and 6 days, Gastroenteritis, Marasmus & Cardiac Failure
November 29th, Rita Poland, 9 weeks, Gastroenteritis & Exhaustion

1940

April 19th, Teresa Walsh, 6 months, Marasmus & tubercular meningitis
May 22nd, Annie Power, 3 months and 1 week, Marasmus & Cardiac failure
October 16th, Leo McGrath, 3 years and 3 months, ‘Imbecile’, Congenital cardiac failure & Gastritis

1941

January 9th, Angela O’Donoghue, 12 days, Congenital debility
December 27th, John Murray, 5 months, Gastroenteritis, Marasmus & Cardiac failure

1942

December 21st, Philomena Gleeson, 4 months, Gastroenteritis & Cardiac failure

1943

December 13th, Michael Wilkinson, 3 months, Marasmus
December 30th, Elizabeth Griffin, 2 months, Marasmus

1944

June 15th, Annie Condon, 3 years, Diphtheria
July 14th, Bridget Hourihan, 5 months, Congenital syphilis
August 20th, Carmel O’Brien, 1 month, Gastroenteritis & Toxaemia

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November 22nd, John O’Leary, 3 months, Epidemic diarrhoea & Gastritis

1945

March 3rd, Mary Ita Hennessy, 6 weeks, Gastroenteritis & Marasmus
June 13th, Gerard Meade*, 6 years, Tubercular meningitis
December 12th, Charles O’Donoghue, 5 weeks, Infantile gastroenteritis

1946

February 9th, Charles McGrath, 9 months, Bronchopneumonia & Marasmus
May 27th, Bridget Keane, 2 months, Bronchopneumonia & Marasmus
July 28th, Nora Lynch, 5 years, Bronchopneumonia & Pertussis
September 6th, Teresa Crowley, 3 months, Infective cardiac enteritis
December 9th, Dolores Cosgrove, 19 days, Congenital debility, imperforate anus, marasmus & cardiac failure

1947

July 13th, Michael Vincent O’Sullivan, 5 months, Bronchopneumonia & Meningitis
September 9th, Eleanor O’Donoghue, 5 weeks, Infective gastroenteritis
October 4th, Anthony Frazer, 4 months, Bronchopneumonia

1948

December 10th, Angela Walsh*, 16 years, Abdominal Tuberculosis
December 17th, Philomena Harty, 3 months, Gastric enteritis & Toxaemia

1949

April 16th, Noel McAuliffe, 4 months, Gastroenteritis
July 27th, Gerald McMahon, 12 weeks, Gastroenteritis
August 26th, Albert Leahy, 9 months, Congenital syphilis

1950

August 24th, Deirdre M. O’Neill, 6 weeks, Gastroenteritis & Marasmus

1954

August 8th, Gerard Mary Ruby, 28 hours, Atelectasis
August 21st, Mary Nagle, 14 months, Gastroenteritis

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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 13/12/2024

Project Infant is always looking for people to volunteer with us to help find the names of those who died in Ireland's #MotherandBabyHomes [and other institutions]. If you want to be a volunteer today, more info can be found here: projectinfant.ie/volunteer

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Project Infant @projectinfant.ie · 14/03/2024

With the number of institutions that had operated in Ireland, we will need all the help we can get. If you are someone looking to volunteer a bit of time here and there, we would be honoured if you'd consider helping to uncover the names of those who died in mother and baby homes... [cont.]

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