Truth about Mother and Baby Homes Part of ‘national Story’ - Bishop

By Olivia Kelleher
Irish Times
March 10, 2017

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Bishop of Cloyne Dr William Crean. Photograph: Catholic Communications Office/PA Wire.

The true picture of what happened in the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork may be difficult to hear but it needs to come out, Bishop of Cloyne Dr William Crean has said.

Dr Crean said details of the goings on at Bessborough, in Blackrock, should be heard as “this is part of our national story”.

“It is only unfolding slowly. The truth may be very difficult. But it is best that we have the truth in relation to it,” he told Cork’s Red FM. “ Whatever is required in that regard will serve us well in the long term even though, in the shorter term, it might be difficult.”

The Sacred Heart Home in Bessborough, managed by the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, opened in 1922. Similar homes were established by the same order in Roscrea and Castlepollard in the 1930s.