She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film

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• 01The release coincides with the continuing excavation of a 5,000 sq metre (53,820 sq ft) site where the Bon Secours order is believed have interred 796 infants who died at the St Mary’s mother and baby home between 1925 and 1961.
• 02It was 2017 and the article chronicled the campaign by Catherine Corless, an amateur local historian, to expose abuse and neglect by Irish nuns that led to hundreds of children being buried in a mass, unmarked grave.
• 03Officials and the Bon Secours order fobbed her off but Corless discovered that 796 children had died without burial records before the institution was closed in 1961 and demolished.
• 04She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film.
• 05Liam Neeson still remembers his shock and shame when he read a New York Times article about the mother and baby institution in Tuam, County Galway.
• 06“I had such a visceral reaction,” Neeson told the Guardian. “I’m obviously Irish, I was raised in the Catholic church, and I had a deep sense of embarrassment and obligation for the truth to come out and for there to be some accountability.”.
• 07The film, based on the New York Times article by Dan Barry, tells the story of how Corless, a former textile factory secretary with an interest in local history, began researching the site for an essay.