ILLUSTRATIONS

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Cover: Strange silence falls on scene of shame

Figure 0.1. The “spider web” of Tuam could touch anywhere

Figure i.1. Homeless

Figure i.2. A dream of green fields

Figure i.3. Women of Britain say—“Go!”

Figure i.4. Orpen’s war exam

Figure i.5. True to tradition

Figure i.6. Food kitchen in Liberty Hall

Figure i.7. The Faith saves “Irish Child” from “Socialism”

Figure i.8. Saving Dublin children

Figure i.9. Staging of Larry Kirwan’s Rebel in the Soul

Figure i.10. State of shame

Figure i.11. “The introduction of internment . . . for fourteen-year-old girls.”

Figure i.12. Credo that protected a monster

Figure i.13. Shadow of a trauma

Figure i.14. “Pretty twisted stuff. It’s almost Kafkaesque.”

Figure 3.1. Ann Lovett: Death at the grotto

Figure 5.1. The Battle of Soldiers Hill

Figure 5.2. Names of 796 Tuam babies written on white sheets

Figure 7.1. The crumbling St Ita’s Hospital, Portrane, Co. Dublin

Figure 7.2. The hospital was divided