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Irish Central
Jane Walsh @irishcentral June 10,2014
A woman who was taken and put up for adoption by Irish nuns spent 44 years trying to track down her birth mother.
She was born in the notorious Bessborough home in County Cork where protests were held this weekend and calls were made to remember all the unmarried mothers and children who passed through there.
Catherine Deasy was separated from her mother by the nuns of the Bessborough Sacred Heart Convent in Cork as soon as she was born. Her mother, Johanna Sheehy, had been declared an unfit mother and was warned to keep away from her child.
One night in 1954, Johanna was caught trying to sneak into the nursery to deliver a tiny pair of crocheted booties to her daughter and was transferred to another convent miles away as punishment.
Four years later, she received a photo of her daughter with a devastating message.
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