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How did people go missing in a historian’s family?
Most readers will be at least vaguely familiar with the wider history here, traced and exposed first by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, which culminated in the damning five-volume Ryan report in 2009. The span and outcome of the subsequent Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters — initiated by the government in 2015 and reporting in October 2020 — dovetailed with Wills’s own research into her missing cousin. Wills “didn’t wait patiently” for the commission’s findings, and when they finally came she read the report’s almost 3000 pages “as though it was a document about my family.” She found plenty of evidence about Bessborough, but it was still “hard to fill out the outline of [Lily’s and Mary’s] lives without a single word from them about how they felt.”
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