abstract:Bethany Home (sometimes called Bethany House or Bethany Mother and Child Home) was a residential home in Dublin, Ireland mainly for women of the Protestant faith, who were convicted of petty theft, prostitution, infanticide, as well as women who were pregnant out of wedlock, and the children of these women. The home was run by evangelical Protestants, mainly (up to the 1960s) members of the Church of Ireland.
Niall Meehan, the head of journalism at Griffith College, found the unmarked grave of 219 BethanyHome children at Mount Jerome cemetery near Harold's Cross in south Dublin.
The Irish government's decision to apologise to the women who worked in the Magdalene Laundries - workhouses run by nuns - has prompted members of the BethanyHome Survivors Group group to say they also want justice.