'Witnesses telling their stories, while they're still alive, is very powerful'

STOLEN, A DOCUMENTARY set to premiere in Dublin next week, opens with an interview with Michael Donovan, who was a gardener at Sean Ross Abbey from 1988 to 1991.

The director is a founding member of Derry Film & Video and is known for her drama Hush-a-Bye Baby and the documentary Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary. “At that stage, I didn’t even know how many people were affected by this issue. And I’ve since discovered there are thousands and thousands of people. “Because I think it’s not going to go away, there are people still alive who want to know where their families are buried. So, they should just take the bull by the horns and be clear with people about what it is they’re going to do.

Their children were generally adopted – at times without their consent, fostered, or sent to an industrial school.Maria Arbuckle’s son Paul was adopted in 1982. She was allowed to feed Paul when he was a newborn in St Patrick’s mother and baby home in Dublin, but was told not to bond with him. One of those people is Michael O’Flaherty who was born in the Tuam institution in 1948 before being boarded out, a precursor to fostering. He said his foster mother was kind but was regularly beaten up by his foster father.He was removed from this particular house by social services, before being sent to a farm where he was forced to work almost every day and rarely allowed to go to school.

“I know that people are really, really unhappy with it. And the whole thing that you have to have been in a home for six months just seems so arbitrary.” The filmmaker also said it’s essential that the religious orders who ran many of the institutions pay towards the scheme.

cd_phone They’ll never discover them Joey.All sites of incarceration likely have unrecorded burials - the State wants to ignore this elephant in the room having delivered a burials bill which places the onus on us to prove ‘inappropriate burials’ took place b4 they consider investigating

Just simply appalling 😔 and I've absolutely no doubt, there are numerous burial sites around Ireland, yet to be discovered.

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