The Adoption Machine Quotes

“There they clambered onto a radiator and peered out the high window through their tears to watch a car leaving with their baby. The marks on the radiator from their shoes were visible up to as late as 2017.”
― Paul Jude Redmond, The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes and the Inside Story of How ‘Tuam 800’ Became a Global Scandal

“If there is a single ‘smoking gun’ piece of evidence that destroys all the excuses the nuns make, such as underfunding, lack of understanding of hygiene, and victim blaming, then the Castlepollard mortality rates are that evidence.”
― Paul Jude Redmond, The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland’s Mother & Baby Homes and the Inside Story of How ‘Tuam 800’ Became a Global Scandal