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Moreover, we pride ourselves on being able to track down and obtain any book our customers want. Resulting from this revelation, the Irish government was pressurised into setting up a Commission of Investigation into all Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland, whose final report was issued in January 2021. It also revealed the terrible secret of 800 babies who had died at the Home from 1925-1961, whose remains had been laid in a defunct sewage tank. Her research revealed the harshness, cruelty and discrimination of the mothers who gave birth there, and their offspring. It speaks to the tender love of a mother and her child to the unforgettable screams which echoed through the corridors as babies were taken against the parent’s will and to a mystery which continues to this day, as so many still search to know where, and to whom, they belong.Ĭatherine Corless is an Irish historian.

Part memoir, part detective story, Belonging is both a personal account – of identity, beginnings and Catherine’s search for her own mother’s lost story – and a recounting of her forensic crusade on behalf of the lost babies of Tuam. Uncovering no less than 796 missing burial records of children born there, the stark truth of their place of rest became clear: a disused sewage tank on the old home site, where two boys had once stumbled upon bones.īut who were these lost children, and what had happened to them in the care of the Bons Secours order of nuns?ĭetermined to know more, Catherine’s painstaking research led to a quest for justice that continues still as, often against fierce resistance, she brought to light a terrible truth that shocked the world, impacted the Vatican, and led to a Commission of Investigation in Ireland. ONE WOMAN, THE SECRETS OF A SMALL TOWN, AND A QUEST FOR JUSTICE THAT ROCKED A NATION.Ĭatherine Corless could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her, as she began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010. Belonging: A Memoir of Place, Beginnings and One Woman’s Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies

Belonging by catherine corless