The Light In The Window

By: June Goulding

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Paperback | 15 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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A moving account of the cruel reality of life inside a home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Catholic Ireland

'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.'

In Ireland, 1951, the young June Goulding took up a position as midwife in a home for unmarried mothers run by the Sacred Heart nuns. What she witnessed there was to haunt her for the next fifty years. It was a place of secrets, lies and cruelty. A place where women picked grass by hand and tarred roads whilst heavily pregnant. Where they were denied any contact with the outside world; denied basic medical treatment and abused for their 'sins'; where, after the birth, they were forced into hard labour in the convent for three years. But worst of all was that the young women were expected to raise their babies during these three years so that they could then be sold - given up for adoption in exchange for a donation to the nuns.

Shocked by the nuns' inhumane treatment of the frightened young women, June risked her job to bring some light into their dark lives. June's memoir tells the story of twelve women's experiences in this home and of the hardships they endured, but also the kindness she offered them, and the hope she was able to bring.

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"'I promised that I would one day write a book and tell the world about the home for unmarried mothers. I have at last kept my promise.'"

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No Night Duty	p. 1
Leaving Seamus	p. 13
First Offenders	p. 21
Giving up Assumpta	p. 33
Kitty's Soldier	p. 41
"She comes from Waterford"	p. 52
The Doctor's Delivery	p. 60
Sadie's Sister	p. 69
Germaine's Tony	p. 77
Merry Christmas...	p. 86
Sadie and Fidelis	p. 98
Birth and Death	p. 105
Mollie's Escape	p. 115
Marie the Rebel	p. 129
Sister Cyril's Dinner-gown	p. 139
Julie in the Gym-Frock	p. 155
Mary and Father Billy	p. 166
The Letters of Freedom	p. 178
Leaving with a Promise	p. 189
Epilogue	p. 203
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