I understand Michael Dwyer has written a book which he self published.
Read “Writing the book on Bessborough” via link below
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In Bessboro records Dwyer found a letter dated Dec 1994 to Sister Sarto from Bridget who lost her son William born in the institution. Bridget visited the site the following Spring and Sr Sarto tapped the ground at the nuns graveyard indicating William was buried there
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1/6 Michael Dwyer is a former history lecturer at UCC. He worked for the @DeptCDE from June 2015 to Feb 2021, unearthing records on #MotherAndBabyHome notably Bessborough in Cork.
Ellie O’Byrne walked the grounds of Bessboro with Michael
In a class of her own.
The indomitable poet Rita Ann Higgins features in this week's Galway City Tribune @CTribune
'Jiving with Wasps; New and Selected Poems'💥 ..a fascinating history of the author, #Galway and society 🥰
#MervueBus#JivingWithWasps
“Some 64 organisations are facing the prospect of job losses when the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is replaced by the Local Growth Fund on 1 April.”
#Devastating to communities in #NorthernIreland
Important mention by @PresidentIRL Connolly of #BridCummins#RIP who witnessed the impacts up close of *multiple abuses* against articulate frmr journalist by @GalwayCityCo
A state apology would be very much in order to purge the stain of evil actions in #Galway@Farrell_Mairead
1/2 Just over 21 years ago a @GalwayCityCo#tenant due to be evicted from the property she rented took her own life. She wasn’t resisting eviction but had asked to stay to the end of the month so she could celebrate #Christmas in the place she called home. With many facing
#homelessness in Ireland today and over 16,700 with no home, it is a timely reminder to our Government of the vulnerability of those who are long-term tenants but for whom there is no security.
#BridCummins was 48 years old. She worked previously at #EUParliament & with
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Reuters as a journalist.
Council #Whistleblower@celticjulie wrote a book on Brid’s struggles with Council. It is now available online (link ⬇️)
It is raw and explosive.
Read it + remember #Brid who should still be with us.
#RestEasy Brid
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https://t.co/Vn7lMP1nQV
Whistleblowers serve as the Justice System’s greatest disinfectant against criminal antitrust conspiracies,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Omeed A. Assefi of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said in the release.