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  • My Name is Bridget

    The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

    by Alison O'Reilly ...
    In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis

    A GLASGOW UNIVERSITY MEDIA GROUP BOOK

    Edited by Catherine Happer, Alison Eldridge, Paul Reilly ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In this book, the Glasgow University Meda Group bring their innovative and forensic three-dimensional methodological approach to understanding the role of media in shaping Britain’s cost of living crisis. In the context of neoliberal austerity, welfare cuts and the corporate capture of media platforms, itprovides evidence ofan increasing disconnect between the narratives promoted by the mainstream ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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    My Name Is Bridget

    The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mother and Baby Home

    by Alison O'Reilly ...
    Narrated by Amy Molloy ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    In 1946, 26 year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century’s worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Her ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Sunday Times and Irish Times bestseller, as featured in the Sunday Independent'You're all fallen women. You've sowed the seed of Satan. You are nothing.'Mary Creighton was just 15 when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock, in 1960s Ireland. She dreamed of a happy life with her child, but that was shattered when she was sent away to Castlepollard - a home for mothers and their unborn ... Read more

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  • Banished Babies

    The Secret Story of Ireland's Baby Export Business

    by Mike Milotte ...
    The story of baby trafficking organised by nuns, sanctioned by an archbishop, administered by civil servants and approved by politicians who tried to keep it secret…In this re-issue of the 2012 second edition of his highly acclaimed Banished Babies, Mike Milotte uncovers in vivid detail how the State colluded with the Church to facilitate the export of thousands of 'illegitimate' children in the ... Read more

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    Maren Bradigan is just sixteen years old when she is taken under false pretenses from her comfortable life on her family farm.Concerned at the level of intimacy developing between Maren and the boy who helps her father with his farm work, the village priest takes it upon himself to remove her from school and bring her to High Park Convent, where he delivers her into the care of the nuns. Now, ... Read more

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  • The Light In The Window

    by June Goulding ...
    'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.'In Ireland, 1951, the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years. It was a place of secrets, lies and cruelty. A place where ... Read more

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  • The Orphanage

    The True Story Of An Abused Convent Upbringing

    by Frances Reilly ...
    'Nobody wants you, so we have to put up with you. We'll soon knock the disobedience out of you...'Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage run by nuns. Little did they know the unimaginable cruelty they'd endure within its walls.Frances suffered horrifically at the hands of the Sisters: brutally beaten, worked like a slave, ... Read more

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