The Way We Were – Single Mums

The anniversary of Ann Lovett’s death has just passed. Lest we forget There was no easy way out of the trap of unmarried motherhood in Ireland. There was infanticide, of course. Mothers or other relatives ‘distraught’ by the birth outside marriage and grieving lost ‘respectability’, undoubtedly killed babies and infants. Between 1922 and 1950, 183 … Continue reading The Way We Were – Single Mums