This event will be only available to ticket holders. The event will take place on YouTube and is in partnership with Hachette Ireland, Kenny’s Bookshop, and The Hardiman Hotel. Follow Author Catherine Corless > Quotes () Showing 1-1 of 1 It is important to say you were in this world, you mattered, you were something, you were a human being. Part memoir, part detective story, Belonging is both a personal. Be the first to learn about new releases Start by following Catherine Corless. Determined 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.
Galway’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature will host the launch of Corless’s new book, Belonging: A Memoir of Place, Beginnings, and One Woman’s Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies, on Thursday September 23 at 7pm.Īt the age of 51, after enrolling in a local history evening course, Corless began to research the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, which she had passed on her way to school every day as a child.Īfter lengthy research, she uncovered a mass burial site for almost 800 babies located on the grounds of the home, and fought for more than a decade to seek justice and restitution for the people impacted by the actions of those in power in such exploitative institutions. Catherine Corless Quotes (Author of Belonging) Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. CATHERINE CORLESS, the historian whose work brought to light the deaths and burials of hundreds of children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, and which led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission, will launch a memoir this month.
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