![]() ![]() O’Reilly’s 2014 Irish Daily Mail on Sunday report brought the work of Tuam historian Catherine Corless to international prominence, causing worldwide shock that 796 children were suspected to have been buried in a disused sewerage system on the site of the former Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam. The exhibition consists of paintings, sculptures, poems, music, spoken-word pieces and art installations. Stay With Me is the brainchild of Alison O’Reilly, the journalist who broke the Tuam Babies story, and is co-curated by Dino Notaro of Dublin’s In-Spire Gallerie. “Justice is needed for all of us, and we need to people to know what happened,” she says. ![]() For Sheila, this exhibition is about bringing out the truth. ![]() She was reunited with her son only last year. In 1976, when Sheila was 19, she was sent to St Patrick’s Mother and Baby Home on Dublin’s Navan Road. One of the other artists is Sheila O’Byrne. ![]() She hopes it may allow us to know in “a felt sense” these difficult truths about Ireland’s often hurtful histories. Whelan, whose M.A looks at the impact of Catholic ethics on Irish obstetrics, says she is seeking to address some of the issues through her art practice. ![]()
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