Liam Neeson Produces Film on 796 Tuam Infant Deaths as Excavation Finds 99 Sets of Remains
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Updated · The Guardian · Sep 25
Liam Neeson Produces Film on 796 Tuam Infant Deaths as Excavation Finds 99 Sets of Remains
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Sep 25
Summary
The Lost Children of Tuam opens in Ireland this week, marking Liam Neeson’s first producing credit and bringing Catherine Corless’s investigation of the Tuam mother-and-baby home to screen.
Neeson said a 2017 New York Times report left him shocked and ashamed, prompting him to option the story and push for a film focused on truth and accountability.
The release coincides with excavation of a 5,000-square-metre Tuam site where the Bon Secours order is believed to have buried 796 infants who died between 1925 and 1961.
An international forensic team has found skeletal remains of 99 babies and children since work began last year, extending a state-backed effort for answers for survivors and relatives.
The film, directed by Frank Berry and starring Monica Dolan as Corless, won best Irish film at the Galway Film Fleadh and lands amid Ireland’s wider reckoning with abuse in church- and state-run institutions.