Census finds Ireland’s Polish community is getting smaller – why are Poles returning home?
Mother & baby homes
Government-appointed director Daniel McSweeney will oversee ‘one of the most complicated forensic excavations in the world’
How much money is too much money to spend on shining a light in places that those with money and power would rather one was not shone?
Daniel Mac Sweeney appointed to oversee excavation of site to allow for remains to be exhumed and reinterred respectfully
Historian and campaigner describes selection of Daniel Mac Sweeney as ‘a great relief’
The poet’s debut collection, The Speculations of Country People, reckons with the legacy of Ireland’s mother and baby homes
So many of the aspirations that fuelled the creation of the State quickly curdled into pious rhetoric at odds with reality. The future was just an attic in which we dumped all our present failures
FG leader in the Seanad Regina Doherty said she did not see ‘any logical reason’ why 24,000 survivors were being excluded from redress scheme
In a patriarchal world, entering a convent often granted a woman greater freedom than motherhood
Actor Cathy Belton and dramatist Mark O’Rowe’s fascination with the Norwegian’s 1881 play bears fruit in a new version coming to the Abbey
Mass actions now comprising 10 per cent of all legal cases against the State
Technology will allow for extraction of DNA from very old remains and matching to ‘third degree relatives’
Kathleen King is still fighting at the age of 80, frustrated that the State redress scheme refuses to accept her account of events
Researchers say they were denied Freedom of Information access to archives on various grounds by Department of the Taoiseach
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