Recently, the Irish national broadcaster, RTÉ, advertised Stolen, a new documentary with the description: “Between 1922 and 1998, over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in church-run mother and baby homes. Tomorrow night, a new documentary [sic] Stolen explores the heartbreaking stories of these women and their families.”
Stolen does indeed tell a heartbreaking story, but it is only the story of a small number of the women and their families who spent time in the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. It does not tell the story of the 80,000.
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