By Roxanne "Flashbulb" Starr
Liam Neeson still remembers where the shame landed — reading a New York Times article in 2017 about a mother-and-baby institution in Tuam, County Galway. That discomfort, he says, is why he's now brought the story to the screen.
The film centers on Catherine Corless, the amateur local historian whose dogged research exposed abuse and neglect by Irish nuns that led to the deaths of almost 800 infants, many of them buried in a mass, unmarked grave. According to Neeson, it was Corless's refusal to be brushed off — "she never accepted no," as the project's backers describe her — that turned a local scandal into a national reckoning.
The Tuam case has haunted Ireland since Corless's findings first surfaced, forcing a public accounting of how church-run institutions treated unmarried mothers and their children for decades. Neeson's decision to dramatize it puts fresh, mainstream attention on a chapter of Irish history that many would rather forget — and on the woman who wouldn't let them.
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