STOLEN Official Trailer Ireland / UK 2023

Margo Harkin’s insightful and heartfelt documentary STOLEN is now available on digital platforms

The film tells the story of several mother and baby homes survivors.

Revealing details of their treatment in a scandal that sparked a government inquiry, STOLEN gives a voice to those silenced for far too long.

Over 80,000 unmarried mothers were incarcerated in mother and baby institutions run by religious orders in Ireland from 1922 to 1998 during which time 9,000 babies are believed to have died. Separated from their birth mothers with policies of adoption, fostering and trafficking, many children were rendered untraceable and unaware of their birth story.

With interviews with journalists, historians, politicians and campaigners the film provides an understanding of how the mother and baby home system operated, the bigger societal issues including the heavy influence of the Catholic Church that allowed these events to happen and the continuing impact on so many people’s lives today

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[thatsthejobbb]

I'm only 34 and my mother was "sent away". We're from Cork so I had always wondered why I was born in Dublin. I spent the first weeks of my life with another family while my mother went back to beg to bring me home. Luckily she was allowed but had to wait some extra days as the family I was with were on holiday. She was 21 when she had me so hardly shockingly young. I will never forgive that institution!!!

[krugerfuchs]

There are people still fighting to be heard and still being ignored

[TheFigalito]

How can I watch this outside of Ireland?

[Mia-ldtz]

I was taught by nuns & I not one of them was kind. They were robotic & extremely cold women.

[krugerfuchs]

The cottage home dun laoghaire had a mother and baby home attached the birdsnest

[krugerfuchs]

Abusive children's home STILL Open in dun laoghaire dangerous rapist protected by the gardai in bray what about the state homes its always the same people I'm sick of being ignored tell my story its even worse

[emmetnolan]

The truth is like a lion
You do not defend it.
Set it loose and it will defend itself. St Augustine……

Agnus Dei he who takes away the sins of the world forgive us .