My dear, talented friend, composer Deirdre Gribbin -Composer for concert and screen was commissioned to write the musical score for STOLEN, produced/directed by the phenomenal Margo Harkin - film is about Ireland's Mother & Baby Home scandal; on RTÉ One on Monday 26 August 2024, 9.35pm. vimeo.com/1000300420

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"Pretty much every major human rights scandal that has occured in Ireland has related to women and children. To me, there is an inherit misogyny at the heart of the Irish state right from its very foundation" - Conall Ó Fátharta #Stolen

#Stolen A reminder of the gulf between the testimony of survivors and the findings of the mother and baby homes Commission: FINDING: “There are a small number of complaints of physical abuse. The women worked but they were generally doing the sort of work they would have done at

Conall Ó Fátharta Exactly Conall. I can’t understand either how the government is getting away with its inhumane redress scheme.

Such an excellent documentary highlighting the profound impact of mother and baby homes and forced adoptions in Ireland #stolen

Mary (below) is almost 96 years old and a survivor of #MotherAndBabyHome which operated in Tuam 1925-1961. She was lucky to have survived. Her sisterTeresa is one of the #MissingChildren ; with death cert dated 1936 and no burial record. Excavations to begin in February 2025

thomas garavan Your aunt looks amazing. My own mother is 98. They are in another class, that generation.

Thank you

Thank you. Such an honour to be involved in telling this story.

It was an honour to be involved in your incredible work.

I watched this last night. It’s harrowing and riveting and shocking what church and state did to women up until quite recently. The music by Deirdre Gribbin -Composer for concert and screen was just perfect. Wildfire Films RTÉ One

Thank you for sharing CMC Ireland Margo Harkin

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A #RosaryBeads sways in the wind on the gate to the #MemorialSite of the #Tuam #MotherAndBabyHome. In a short number of weeks this site will be inaccessible to us as preliminary works begin to aid the recovery of the #LostBabies and #Children scheduled for February 2025 🙏💔

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