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A 94-year-old survivor of an Irish mother and baby home is fundraising to buy her house from the council in case her son tries to find her after her death.
Christina Tully gave birth in 1949 while she was at a home for unmarried women run by nuns in Galway.
The child she calls Michael was immediately taken from her and she was told he had died. She doesn’t believe it, and has spent her life searching for him.
“I’d like to buy [the house] so he knows I waited for him,” she told the Irish Examiner.
In 2016 the remains of 796 babies and children were found in a disused septic tank at the mother and baby home where Tully lived.
She worries Michael could be one of them. But she has reason to hope. A second son taken away by nuns in the 1960s has reunited with Tully in the past decade.
