My Title is Bridget: The Untold Story of Bridget Dolan and the Tuam Mom and Child Dwelling

In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the trail to the entrance door of the Tuam Mom and Child Dwelling. Alone and pregnant, she was following within the footsteps of greater than a century’s value of misplaced souls. Shunned by society for her sins and supplied no consolation for her ache, Bridget gave start to a boy, John, who died on the house in a horrendous state of neglect lower than two years later. Her second baby was as soon as once more delivered into the care of the nuns and was taken from her, by no means to be seen or heard from once more.

She would go on to marry a beautiful man and have a daughter, Anna Corrigan, but it surely was solely after Bridget’s dying that Anna found she had two brothers her mom had by no means spoken about. Within the aftermath of the explosive revelations that the stays of 796 infants had been present in a septic tank on the positioning of the Tuam Mom and Child Dwelling, she turned compelled to try to discover out if her child brothers’ stays have been amongst them.

Right here, Anna and Alison O’Reilly piece collectively the erased chapter of the lifetime of Bridget Dolan and her forgotten sons, reminding us that we should always remember what was performed to the ladies and youngsters of the Tuam Mom and Child Dwelling.