“I didn’t know who I was,” he says. With the help of his wife, Michael began to trace his roots and discovered he had spent his first five years in the Tuam mother and baby home. They wrote letters and the following year Michael and Ann travelled to the UK to meet Patricia. She said looking out the window ‘oh Michael I let myself down, I let my parents down, all my friends’. Relatives of his late mother let slip the surname of a former boyfriend of Michael’s mother.

Source: The Irish Times February 07, 2019 15:56 UTC