A Catholic girl in Ireland

A Story by Onlyme

She was sixteen

unmarried and pregnant.

and all alone.

A young Catholic girl in Ireland.

That does bring shame

dishonour to her family.

She's sent

to a religious order

funded but the government.

A mother-and-baby home.

Operated as a quasi-public

institutions for decades

stared in the 1920s.

Their function

was to hide the prohibited-out-of-wedlock pregnancy

from public viewing and knowledge.

To have birth, in seclusion

while waiting for their

newborn to appear.

They're worked

for their keep

with heavy laundry tasks.

When a baby is born.

It is then take off them.

Adopted into a good Catholic family

abroad in some far of the land.

The said mother would never know

or find out.

Who adopted their child.

If a baby was stillborn or complication

causing death.

They would bury the baby

with a wooden cross marking

their graves.

The unforgotten lost souls

of Ireland.

© 2018 Onlyme

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Ilyes yes

" One's tragedy is someone else's excitement " . Good writing skills and ideas , but you need to make them a bit longer to make the reader more excited and looking for answers . Good job , try to write more short stories .

Posted 5 Years Ago

sette

this is one good writing and i am sorry that it had happened in ireland during those years.. sometimes religion can either make or break a person

Posted 5 Years Ago

LKBillips

Now I'm angry. This brings out such irritation at the injustice of women back then. Guess that's my inside feminist getting feisty. It's all about appearances. ARGH. Nice write though. :)

Posted 5 Years Ago

Paul Bell

nice and civilised. You actually wonder if things have really changed.

Posted 5 Years Ago

Chris

There were and ARE STILL a number of those types of "places" throughout the world. Societies are "powered" by 'uncommon' opinion and religious-led drama...