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Feb 7, 2014 · Forced to give up her child for adoption as a teenager, the woman who inspired the Oscar-nominated film starring Judi Dench talks about forgiveness and keeping her faith.
- Nolan Feeney
Dec 29, 2018 · The Oscar-nominated film Philomena airs on the BBC tonight, starring Judi Dench as Philomena Lee, an Irish woman who maintained a 50-year search for her forcibly adopted son. The film tells...
Nov 18, 2013 · It was her daughter Jane who she first told about Anthony. “Once Mum told me it explained a lot,” she recalls, sat to Philomena’s right. “It explained why we were not raised as Catholics, why we did not go to the Catholic school and all that.
- Niall O Sullivan
Jan 10, 2014 · Her family sent her away to hide her condition, and in the convent of Sean Ross Abbey at Roscrea in County Tipperary she gave birth as a ‘fallen woman’.
May 11, 2015 · She was sent to the nuns at a convent at Roscrea in County Tipperary to give birth as a ‘fallen woman'. She was forced to spend over three years there, slaving in the laundries while also caring for her son, Anthony.
- Pan Macmillan
Nov 18, 2021 · Philomena Lee issued a powerful sworn statement to the High Court, in which she told her heartbreaking story, and highlighted what she called the ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment of vulnerable women like her. The 88-year-old said the adoptions carried out through Ireland’s mother and baby homes caused ‘unspeakable harm’.
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Aug 10, 2016 · One year, on his birthday, my mom asked him what he wanted for his birthday. He requested a book about Saint Philomena. (My mom was delighted but surprised that a teenage boy would ask for something like that.) Even more amazing—my brother decided to choose her as his confirmation saint!
