NUI Galway has launched a new project to archive personal histories of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. The event included two panel discussions exploring the issues of collecting and archiving oral histories of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. In the evening NUI Galway’s President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh launched ‘The Tuam Oral History Project’, which will involve the collecting of oral histories from survivors of the Tuam home, as well as people from the local area or those with an interest in contributing to the project. Primary researchers on the project are Dr John Cunningham and Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley from NUI Galway’s Department of History and the oral histories will be housed in the James Hardiman Library. Events at NUI Galway concluded with a screening of Mia Malarkey’s documentary, ‘Mother and Baby’, followed by a panel discussion involving Ms Malarkey, survivor Peter Mulryan, Breeda Murphy from the Tuam Home Survivors Network and campaigner Eunan Duffy.

Source: Irish Examiner February 07, 2019 16:52 UTC