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The Lost Children of Bessborough | Cork News
Mary Donovan’s quest to uncover her mother’s hidden past leads to a harrowing revelation: her mother, Margaret Mary Finn, was one of the thousands lost in Ireland’s dark institutional system, and she bore twin siblings among the missing children of Bessborough. Sent to a reformatory at sixteen for being “wayward,” Margaret Mary’s life unraveled through psychiatric asylums and Magdalene laundries, culminating in two admissions to Bessborough where she gave birth to three children—including twins who died within days in 1959. Medical records show thirteen pregnancies and multiple miscarriages…
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