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

25 Sep 2026, 09:53 GMT By Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent
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Article ‘She never accepted no’: Liam Neeson on dogged heroine behind Tuam mass baby grave film
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Catherine Corless’s exposure of almost 800 infant deaths at a home led by nuns prompted Neeson to bring the story to screen Liam 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. It 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. Continue reading...