Banished Babies: The Secret History of Ireland’s Baby Export Business
by 2012: What’s the ‘real’ truth?
Since this story broke in 1996, the Irish media have been chasing down details of the “export” –primarily to the U.S.–of 2,000-plus infants and toddlers born to unmarried Irish mothers between the late ’40s and the mid-’70s. Reporter Milotte did a TV documentary on the subject; his book incorporates new archival material released by the Irish government and the Catholic Church, as well as three involving case studies of efforts by adoptees or the mothers who reluctantly gave them up to get back together.
At mid-century, both church and state in Ireland stressed shame, secrecy, and the religion of adoptive parents over all other considerations; only in the mid-’50s did Eire require confirmation that proposed parents could provide a healthy (as well as a Catholic) home for Irish kids, and several money-based schemes slipped through the Republic’s lax rules. An enlightening international sidebar to studies of the consequences of open versus closed adoption.
According to Ireland´s Ryan Report approximately 30,000 children were tortured and abused while in catholic religion run Industrial Schools. This report only investigated the abuses committed against children by priest and nuns of approximately 10% of the religious institutions all over Ireland without including Mental Institutions and Magdalene Laundries. We present the names of some of these hellholes listed on the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002:
- An Griana´n Training Centre, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9
- Artane Industrial School for Senior Boys, Dublin 5
- Baltimore Fishery School for Senior Boys, Baltimore, Co. Cork
- Benada Abbey Industrial School for Girls, Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Carriglea Park Industrial School for Senior Boys, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- Cottage Home, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- Don Bosco House, Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
- Family Group Home, Geevagh, Co. Sligo
- Family Group Home, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Family Group Home, Wexford
- Kirwan House, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
- Madonna House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
- Madonna House, Merrion Road, Dublin 4
- Martanna House Hostel, Grace Park Road, Dublin 9
- Miss Carr’s Children’s Home, 5 Northbrook Road, Dublin 6
- Mount Carmel Industrial School for Girls, Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Nazareth House, Sligo
- Orphanage Schools, Convent of Mercy, Kells, Co. Meath
- Our Boy’s Home, 95 Monkstown Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- Our Lady of Mercy Industrial School for Girls, Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Our Lady of Succour Industrial School, Newtownforbes, Co. Longford
- Our Lady’s Industrial School for Girls, Ennis, Co. Clare
- Pembrook Alms (Nazareth House) Industrial School for Girls,Tralee, Co. Kerry
- CPI Marino Special School, Bray, Co. Wicklow
- Cork University Hospital School
- Harcourt Street Hospital, Dublin 2
- Holy Family School for Moderate Learning Disability, Charleville, Co. Cork
- Our Lady of Good Counsel, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin 12
- Sacred Heart Home, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- School of the Divine Child, Lavanagh, Ballintemple, Cork
- School of the Holy Spirit, Seville Lodge, Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Scoil Ard Mhuire, Lusk, Co Dublin
- Scoil Eanna, School of the Angels, Montenotte, Cork
- Scoil Triest, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
- St. Martin’s Orphanage, Waterford
- St. Clare’s Orphanage, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6
- St. David’s, Lota, Glanmire, Co. Cork
- St. Gabriel’s School, Curraheen Road, Cork
- St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
- St. Joseph’s Orthapaedic Hospital for Children, Coole, Co.Westmeath
- St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Impaired, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- St. Kevin’s Reformatory, Glencree, Co. Wicklow
- St. Martha’s Industrial School, Monaghan
- St. Martha’s Industrial School, Merrion, Dublin 4
- St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Baldoyle, Dublin 13
- St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Dublin 11
- St. Mary’s School for Visually Impaired Girls, Merrion, Dublin
- St. Vincent’s Centre for Persons with Intellectual Disability, Lisnagry, Limerick
- St. Vincent’s Orphanage, North William St, Dublin 9
- St. Aidan’s Industrial School for Girls, Newross, Co. Wexford
- St. Aloysius’ Industrial School for Girls, Clonakilty, Co. Cork 25
- St. Ann’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Renmore, Lenaboy, Co. Galway
- St. Anne’s Industrial School for Girls, Booterstown, Co. Dublin
- St. Anne’s Reformatory School for Girls, Kilmacud, Co. Dublin
- St. Anne’s, Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
- St. Augustine’s Industrial School for Girls, Templemore, Co.Tipperary
- St. Augustine’s, Obelisk Park, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin
- St. Bernadette’s, Bonnington, Montenotte, Cork
- St. Bernard’s Industrial School for Girls, Fethard, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
- St. Bridgid’s Industrial School for Girls, Loughrea, Co. Galway
- St. Cecilia’s, Cregg House, Sligo
- St. Clare’s Orphanage, Harold’s Cross, Dublin 6
- St. Coleman’s Industrial School for Girls, Cobh/Rushbrook, Co. Cork
- St. Columba’s Industrial School for Girls, Westport, Co. Mayo
- St. Conleth’s Reformatory School for Boys, Daingean, Co. Offaly
- St. Dominick’s Industrial School for Girls, Waterford
- St. Finbarr’s Industrial School for Girls, Sundays Well, Marymount, Cork
- St. Francis Xavier’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon
- St. Francis’ & St Mary of the Angels, Beaufort, Killarney, Co. Kerry
- St. Francis’ Industrial School for Girls, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
- St. George’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
- St. John’s Industrial School for Girls, Birr, Co. Offaly
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Passage West, Co. Cork
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Boys, Tralee, Co. Kerry
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Clifden, Co. Galway
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls and Junior Boys, Liosomoine, Killarney, Co. Kerry
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Cavan
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Dundalk, Co. Louth
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Kilkenny
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Mallow, Co. Cork
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Summerhill, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Girls, Whitehall, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Ferryhouse, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Glin, Co. Limerick
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Greenmount, Cork
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Letterfrack, Co. Galway
- St. Joseph’s Industrial School for Senior Boys, Salthill, Co. Galway
- St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Tivoli Road, Dun Laoghaire
- St. Joseph’s Reformatory School for Girls, Limerick
- St. Joseph’s School for Hearing Impaired Boys, Cabra, Dublin 7
- St. Joseph’s School for the Visually Handicapped, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- St. Kyran’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
- St. Laurence’s Industrial School for Girls, Sligo
- St. Laurence’s Industrial School, Finglas, Dublin 11
- St. Martha’s Industrial School for Girls, Bundoran, Co. Donegal
- St. Mary’s Industrial School, Lakelands, Sandymount, Dublin 4
- St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Baldoyle, Dublin 13
- St. Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh, Finglas, Dublin 11 Sch.
- St. Mary’s School for Hearing Impaired Girls, Cabra, Dublin 7
- St. Mary’s, Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- St. Mary’s, Drumcar, Dunleer, Co. Louth
- St. Mary’s, Rochestown, Cork
- St. Michael’s Industrial School for Girls, Wexford
- St. Michael’s Industrial School for Junior boys, Cappoquin, Co.Waterford
- St. Michael’s, Glenmaroon, Chapelizod, Dublin 20
- St. Mura’s Orphanage, Fahan, Co. Donegal
- St. Patrick’s Industrial School for Boys, Upton, Cork
- St. Patrick’s Industrial School for Junior Boys, Kilkenny
- St. Paul’s Hospital, Beaumont, Dublin 9
- St. Paul’s, Montenotte, Cork
- St. Saviour’s Orphanage, Lr. Dominick Street, Dublin 1
- St. Vincent’s (House of Charity) Industrial School for Junior Boys, Drogheda, Co. Louth
- St. Vincent’s Industrial School for Girls, Limerick
- St. Vincent’s Industrial School, Goldenbridge, Inchicore, Dublin 8
- St. Vincent’s Orphanage, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
- St. Vincent’s, Navan Road, Dublin 7
- Stewart’s Hospital, Palmerstown, Dublin 20
- Tabor House, Dublin
- Temple Street Hospital, Dublin 1
- The Bird’s Nest Home, 19 York Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
- The Los Angeles Homes, Dublin
- The O’Brien Institute, Malahide Road, Dublin
- Trudder House, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow
- Warrenstown House, Corduff Road, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15