Watch the performance devised by students from Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway. The performance is their response to testimony of Survivors of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home and will be available to view from 2pm on Saturday May 1st.
About the Tuam Oral History Project
The key aim of the Tuam Oral History Project is to enable the survivors of the Tuam institution and their families to tell their own life stories, in the way that they want them to be told. In that regard, members of the project team will record and archive the histories and life stories of survivors and their families, as well as the memories of others connected in any way with the institution or with those who spent time there.
The project will:
The project will:
- Permanently preserve and maintain the recorded recollections of individuals in the James Hardiman Library in NUI Galway along with relevant personal documents.
- Provide access to this material for historical research/ print or online publication/ lectures/ education programmes and other legitimate academic purposes. Interviewees themselves will determine whether to make their testimonies available immediately or at some point in the future.
- To work with survivors to provide an artistic response to their stories.
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