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# sean ross abbey

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2022
# project infant
'These were babies, not numbers': New website documents deaths in mother and baby homes
Project Infant has been created by student Daniel Loftus.
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# mother and baby homes
'Gardaí returned women who escaped': Philomena Lee & Mary Harney challenge Commission in High Court
The women are seeking to have elements of the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes quashed.
# High Court
Philomena Lee among women taking legal action against findings in Mother and Baby Home report
Lee’s life story was made into an award-winning film, Philomena, in 2013.
# sean ross abbey
Commission finds remains of at least 42 infants in burial plot of former mother and baby home
6,414 women were admitted to Sean Ross Abbey and 6,079 children were born or admitted there between 1931 and 1969.
# forced adoption
Philomena Lee says Ireland must ensure mother and baby home 'atrocities' never happen again
Lee also said she is “dismayed” that some details from the Mother and Baby Homes report were leaked.
# mother-and-baby homes
Surveys to be carried out on burial grounds at Sean Ross Abbey in Tipperary
The Commission of Investigation will not be issuing its final report this year.