![]() ![]() The fallen.īut young Catherine knows only that the children who live within seem to be a different species altogether: sallow, sickly - segregated. Sinners and their illegitimate spawn, it is said. And to her left, the mother and baby home, with glass shards embedded atop its stony enclosure.īehind this forbidding divide, nuns keep watch over unmarried mothers and their children. To her right runs the Parkmore racecourse, where hard-earned shillings are won or lost by a nose. Two miles into this long-ago Irish morning, the young girl passes through a gantlet of gray formed by high walls along the Dublin Road that seem to thwart sunshine. Her auburn hair in ringlets, this child named Catherine is bound for Tuam, the ancient County Galway town whose name derives from a Latin term for “burial mound.” It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archdiocese, a proud distinction announced by the skyscraping cathedral that for generations has loomed over factory and field. ![]()
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