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Liam Neeson: ‘I got angrier and angrier. I’m an Irishman. I was an altar boy. But I was horrified’
Ireland🏛️ PoliticsCenter14 hr. ago

Liam Neeson: ‘I got angrier and angrier. I’m an Irishman. I was an altar boy. But I was horrified’

Liam Neeson discusses his reaction to reading Dan Barry's 2017 New York Times article 'The Lost Children of Tuam,' which exposed the discovery of 796 infant deaths at a former Catholic home for unwed mothers in County Galway. The article highlighted the lack of burial records and suggested some remains were disposed of in a septic tank. Neeson, an Irishman raised in Northern Ireland, expressed deep anger and horror over the findings and decided to support turning the story into a film. He collaborated with director Frank Berry on 'The Lost Children of Tuam,' which premiered in Galway in July. The film features Monica Dolan as Catherine Corless, the amateur historian who uncovered the records. Neeson notes that similar atrocities occurred elsewhere, though the issue remains largely unknown outside Ireland.

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Liam Neeson: ‘I got angrier and angrier. I’m an Irishman. I was an altar boy. But I was horrified’

Liam Neeson discusses his reaction to reading Dan Barry's 2017 New York Times article 'The Lost Children of Tuam,' which exposed the discovery of 796 infant deaths at a former Catholic home for unwed mothers in County Galway. The article highlighted the lack of burial records and suggested some remains were disposed of in a septic tank. Neeson, an Irishman raised in Northern Ireland, expressed deep anger and horror over the findings and decided to support turning the story into a film. He collaborated with director Frank Berry on 'The Lost Children of Tuam,' which premiered in Galway in July. The film features Monica Dolan as Catherine Corless, the amateur historian who uncovered the records. Neeson notes that similar atrocities occurred elsewhere, though the issue remains largely unknown outside Ireland.

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