IRELAND
Irish Independent
Cian Murray, Alan O’Keefe
PUBLISHED
08/01/2017
An art installation which was designed to remember Ireland’s Mother and Baby Centres went up in flames in Dublin’s Temple Bar this afternoon.
The fire was located on the corner of Essex and Exchange Street near the Smock Alley Theatre.
A nearby premises, that wishes not to named, confirmed that the exhibition was alight until around 5:30pm, at which time it was extinguinshed.
Mannix Flynn, who designed the piece, said: “It is destroyed. The whole piece of work is destroyed. The artwork itseslf has been there for two years. It calls to remember all the children who have been vanished, the “Tuam babies” and also the many children we know nothing about in this part of our social history.”
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