Bessborough Mother and Baby Home
Dwyer, Michael
Bessborough was Ireland's most notorious Mother & Baby Home. From 1922 to 1998 almost 20, 000 women and children passed through its doors. In the first book of its kind, historian Michael Dwyer takes us inside Bessborough. Using an array of historical sources, Dwyer pieces together the relationship between the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts who ran the home, the local authorities who paid them to maintain women and children there and the state d...