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1 hour and 47 minutes
THERE ARE DARK SECRETS BURIED UNDERNEATH THIS WATERLOGGED SURFACE
Government inquiry revealed a pattern of neglect, high child mortality rates and lack of burial records among mother and baby homes once run by Ireland's religious orders. Mothers recount the shame and secrecy attached to pregnancy outside marriage and their long struggle to be reunited with the children that many claim were illegally adopted, while adoptees reveal how they were thwarted from accessing birth records.
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