DP/30: The Real "Philomena" and her daughter, Jane

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• SM

  @sm3296 · 5 years ago

  Appalled at this interviewer who thought her having other children would cancel the pain of losing her firstborn. A mother never forgets a child no matter how many she had.

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• LI

  @LithaMoonSong · 8 years ago

  I'll have to assume 38 nuns gave this video the thumbs down....??? Who does that? This dear woman is quite brave coming forward to expose the crimes of the Catholic church.

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• PA

  @paulalane2176 · 6 years ago (edited)

  When I was growing up, all we knew was that Michael (Anthony) was adopted. We were his West Coast cousins from California. We didn’t know all the particulars, or at least I didn’t. When we heard there was a book and a movie about his adoption, we of course went to see the movie. It was my aunt that adopted Mary and Michael. The movie was such a tear jerker, especially for me since he was my cousin. Didn’t really know anything about this. All we knew is that he was adopted and that he started to learn how to read when he was two. We were informed that he was a very bright boy. He became a lawyer.  He turned out to be a very successful young man. It’s heartbreaking that the two of them, Michael and his mother, never got to be reunited. And it wasn’t for a lack of trying.

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• LO

  @lookingupwithwonder · 10 years ago

  My dad was given up to foster homes in Ireland in 1942, he was severely abused,  in 8 different orphanages in the first 7 years of his life. A child needs to be with the people who love them.

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• MO

  @moiragoldsmith7052 · 5 years ago

  And she helped those tormented souls in the hospital for 30 years. What a marvellous lady. 💞

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• KY

  @kyldy · 12 years ago

  No one should ever apologise for a life. &nbsp;having a child is never a &quot;mortal sin&quot;.<br>This is a real sad thing and happened so many times. Stolen children.

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• TI

  @Tipperary757 · 7 years ago

  I found the movie a little too flippant in some ways. In fact, I thought they portrayed Philomena as a bit ditzy when she was worldly in many ways through her difficult work. She has done a great service by going public although I think the movie did not expose the horror of the mother and baby homes. I know Philomena speaks kindly as she doesn&apos;t want to be ostracized. This movie could have done more show dimensions of an organized system to have mothers raise their babies to age two, always knowing they would be taken away. They had no control. This would affect them for the rest of their lives, not to mention the lives of their children. The nuns worked actively to keep mothers and children apart forever -- diabolical.

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• ME

  @melissamechele · 10 years ago

  I so love hearing the TRUE story. &nbsp;God Bless Philomena Lee.

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• MR

  @MrKennethAGray · 12 years ago

  Totally evil the church should pay for this ,after all they made a lot of money from selling these poor children.

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• AN

  @annamalpete · 9 years ago

  PHILOMENA HAS A VERY SUPPORTIVE DAUGHTER!

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• MA

  @MarieBleakley-do5cw · 3 years ago (edited)

  My mum was one of the children of Ireland born in a workhouse convent, she never knew her real mother , she was taken from her , I always think about my grandmother Mary Brennan.who she was ? Where did she go ? What was her life ? Did she think of my mum ? My beautiful mother passed away 3 months ago three weeks off turning 90 never knowing her real story. My hope is they are united in heaven . My greatest wish is to find their story in my life , where do you start , everyone is so secretive 🙏🙏🙏

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• AN

  @annamalpete · 9 years ago

  i loved this movie and cried and not embarassed to say that. (male 65 yo)

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