![]() Read More: Irish officials aware of mother and baby home mass graves years before politicians and public ![]() “My Name is Bridget” finally shares the story of Corrigan’s mother Bridget Dolan, from her pregnancy at age 26 and her time spent shunned by society at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, to her life as a married mother still haunted by the fate of her two boys. I feel very humbled to have written a story that got such a massive reaction,” she stated. “I often think of the children who have died and I hope wherever they are, they are standing on the shoulders of giants because now, thanks to the global attention my 2014 story received they went from being buried in a cesspit for all those decades to being big bright angels in the sky. ![]() O’Reilly, who is a birth, adoptive, and foster mother, said the process of writing the book was extremely difficult at times as she pondered the vulnerability of unmarried women and their children who came before her in an unaccepting time. ![]()
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