Republic Of Shame: Stories From Ireland's Institutions For 'Fallen Women'

"A few years ago, when I read about the horrors inflicted by Roman Catholic nuns on single moms and their children at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, I wondered what drove the shame that enforced this cruelty. Caelainn Hogan’s sensitive, can’t-look-away book, Republic of Shame, explores that question through the stories of the women who were irrevocably damaged by it. Ireland today is progressive – abortion and same-sex marriage are legal – but those milestones came only within the past five years. Through moving stories, Hogan shows how the past is still present."