The Bethany Home Survivors Group, launched by former residents of the infamous clinic due to the years of torment the many women and children endured there to laws that effectively criminalized out of wedlock births. The home ran from Blackhall Place, Dublin, from 1921-34 and in Orwell Road, Rathgar, until its closure in 1972.
Women convicted of petty theft, prostitution, and infanticide and birth concealment were forcibly set here. Associated with the Church of Ireland and Church of Ireland missionary society, the house was known for its high mortality rate with over 40 children recorded as dying in a period when the home had 19 babies resident on average per month most of whom were buried in unmarked common graves.
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