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Mary’s Search for Lost Siblings at Bessborough | Cork News
Mary Donovan dives into her family’s harrowing past, uncovering how her mom Margaret endured institutional abuse and loss — including the tragic deaths of twins born at Bessborough in 1959. Margaret’s story spans reform schools, mental asylums, and Magdalene laundries, with records showing thirteen pregnancies and a missing sibling, Finbarr. Mary, now battling severe arthritis and trauma from her own childhood in the same industrial school her father attended, fights for justice and remembrance. With Ireland’s Taoiseach pushing to repurpose the Bessborough site into a memorial garden, Mary…
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