Daniel Loftus is working on #ProjectInfant. 🌳🔎
@danielmloftus
Genealogist, college student and @Project_Infant creator. Posts about #Genealogy & more. Wanna-be many things, too little time. (Trying to) make a difference.
At the beginning of her life, my mother was born in a mother & baby home with the third highest death rate in Ireland. At 15 days old, my mother was sent in a taxi to an adoption home halfway up the country with her mother. Her mother would visit her a few times by...
#Bessboro planning application refused 🥳 #MotherandBabyHomes #Bessborough
Plans for 280 apartments on campus of former Bessborough mother and baby home refused irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…
Plans for 280 apartments on campus of former Bessborough mother and baby home refused irishexaminer.com/news/munster/a…
Decision 2 years overdue for the 2 planning applications on the grounds of #Bessboro has been refused. Not to do with the historical nature of the property but because of the scale & mix of the development. WE ARE DELIGHTED. #SaveBessboro
I spoke to an 89 year old gentleman yesterday who was born in #Bessboro. He visits Bessboro regularly, the compulsion to visit the place he was with his mother is very strong. He cried as he explained tracing her but she died 8weeks before. He showed me the sacred ground 1/4
Two survivors of institutions have taken a legal case to be included in the redress scheme irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4167…
William was born a healthy baby. If he had received timely medical care we believe he’d be alive today. #JusticeForWilliam #Bessboro ‘Mother of baby who died shortly after birth at Bessborough brings action over inquest refusal’ breakingnews.ie/ireland/mother… via @breakingnewsie
HSE admits it has no burial records for the 80 children who died in Galway hospital from the Tuam home. 94 year old Michael Tully is one of those babies. HSE says it didn’t fully appreciate the significance of them until recent years. #tuambabies irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4167…
Posted on TikTok about going to watch the #AllIrelandFinal with friends in a pub. (And how this would be the first time I’ve ever seen a hurling match) The amount of people who were losing their minds wondering how I’d never seen a hurling match in my life is something else… 😨
Dear @NormaFoleyTD1 — act on your own government’s legislation. For too long, #Bessborough has been excluded from an investigation. It is there, on the Statute Book website, in black & white. The government needs to act. #MotherAndBabyHomes
According to Institutional Burials Act 2022, Section 8, which refers to ‘Manifestly Inappropriate Burials’ all of the highlighted subsections apply to #Bessboro The government is not above the law. The government must be compelled to act #Justice #TheForgottenDead
...the 1911 Census (projectinfant.ie/the-homes/arta…) have been uploaded too. [The 1911 Census especially was in dire need of it as there was details not transcribed on the National Archive's census website for over 300 people in the Industrial School] All can be viewed on links above.
St. Joseph's Industrial School on the @Project_Infant has had some additions. Full transcripts of every death cert of an Artane Industrial School death has been added. projectinfant.ie/the-homes/arta… Improved transcripts of the 1901 Census (projectinfant.ie/the-homes/arta…) and...
A buried scandal that's haunted Ireland for decades, with excavations now underway for the remains of hundreds of babies at a home for unwed mothers— their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. CNN’s @donie on this painful story.
Christiane, it's not just Tuam where there are hundreds of missing babies buried who knows where. Bessborough, where my mother was born has hundreds of missing children. Sean Ross Abbey has hundreds of missing children. And these are the institutions we know about so far.
They say they simply don’t believe that there are no human remains within the area earmarked for expansion... sundayworld.com/news/northern-…
Can we please give it up for, Daniel? He’s worked tirelessly on this and he never gives up. He’s an amazing young man.
Dear @NormaFoleyTD1 — act on your own government’s legislation. For too long, #Bessborough has been excluded from an investigation. It is there, on the Statute Book website, in black & white. The government needs to act. #MotherAndBabyHomes
My brother& other children born in Bessboro had a right to life,a right to family life&when they died they had a right to be buried with dignity with the involvement of their mothers. We need justice for them,we need to find out what happened.INVESTIGATE #Bessboro @NormaFoleyTD1