IRELAND
Irish Independent
Sasha Brady
March 4 2017
Rosemary Adaser spoke about the abuse she suffered growing up mixed-race in Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes and industrial schools.
Ms Adaser was born to an Irish mother, who worked as a telephonist at Dublin’s Rotunda Hospital, and a black Ghanaian father, who worked as a doctor there. Shortly after her birth, her mother was forced to place her in St Clare’s Convent in Stamullen, Co Meath.
In 1958, when she was just 18-months-old, Ms Adaser was admitted to a mother-and-baby home on the Navan Road in Dublin. When she was six-years-old, she was transferred to St Joseph’s industrial school in Kilkenny where she suffered systematic abuse.
Speaking on Friday night’s The Late Late Show, Ms Adaser gave a harrowing account of her time in industrial care.
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