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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: In Conversation with Catherine Corless
Description: Recorded December 7, 2018.
Listen back to this ‘In Conversation’ with Catherine Corless who was interviewed by Professor of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin, Aoife Mc Lysaght.
As a family historian researching in her own time and without any university affiliation, Catherine Corless has worked on a particular, and shameful, aspect of Irish history, namely the “Mother and Baby Homes”. Her work in gathering information on the institution in Tuam, Co. Galway, has revealed patterns of the mistreatment of individuals, both adult women and their infants, under de facto incarceration. Though local people may have been aware of the conditions, the absence of recor...