Christopher Quirin, 63, was born to a single mother in Ireland in 1950, a
time when such a thing was considered an unspeakable disgrace. Back
then Quirin’s mother was sent by her parents to the now notorious Sean
Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, the same mothers and babies home
as Philomena Lee. Lee is the woman whose shocking life-story inspired
the recent Academy Award-nominated movie starring Judi Dench.
Lee and Quirin’s mother had children just two years apart, and Quirin says he imagines he must have played in the same rooms as Michael, Lee’s boy who was later adopted by the American couple Doc and Marge Hess.
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Lee and Quirin’s mother had children just two years apart, and Quirin says he imagines he must have played in the same rooms as Michael, Lee’s boy who was later adopted by the American couple Doc and Marge Hess.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/irishvoice/After-1950s-forced-adoption-New-Yorker-is-reunited-with-his-Irish-mother.html