Happy (almost) #Halloween from Dracula's castle. Or is it really the Bessborough Hotel in downtown #Saskatoon #Saskatchewan? #saskatooning #ExploreSask #ThePhotoHour #stormhour #TMACtravel #satw
October 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy (almost) #Halloween from Dracula's castle. Or is it really the Bessborough Hotel in downtown #Saskatoon #Saskatchewan? #saskatooning #ExploreSask #ThePhotoHour #stormhour #TMACtravel #satw
December 9, 2024 at 11:32 PM
April 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
An important reminder, via @carmelcantwell.bsky.social's research that while we associate life-long incarceration with Magdalene laundries, women also stayed in 'mother and baby homes' like Bessborough for life www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
Bessborough: 1926 census reveals scale of child deaths and missing records in Cork
New census analysis highlights deaths, missing children, and lived experiences at Bessborough as redevelopment plans reignite public attention
www.irishexaminer.com
April 25, 2026 at 3:54 PM
An important reminder, via @carmelcantwell.bsky.social's research that while we associate life-long incarceration with Magdalene laundries, women also stayed in 'mother and baby homes' like Bessborough for life www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...
July 24, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Will do more tweeting about the #Bessborough commemoration but feel this in itself deserves a separate post.
Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research.
A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.
Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research.
A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.
June 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Will do more tweeting about the #Bessborough commemoration but feel this in itself deserves a separate post.
Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research.
A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.
Got to speak to the Taoiseach about my #MotherAndBabyHomes research.
A surreal moment nonetheless but I’m glad I got to convey the importance (and necessity) of investigating Bessborough.
Bessboro Mother & Baby Home: Between 1943 and 1944 there was a reported 82% infant mortality rate. Eight decades ago,the State abandoned a threatened investigation into the Bessborough mother and baby institution, despite the deaths of nearly 700 children. #spéirghorm www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
Cork's Bessborough: Between 1943 and 1944 there was a reported 82% infant mortality rate
Eight decades ago, the State abandoned a threatened investigation into the Bessborough mother and baby institution, despite the deaths of nearly 700 ...
www.echolive.ie
March 18, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Bessboro Mother & Baby Home: Between 1943 and 1944 there was a reported 82% infant mortality rate. Eight decades ago,the State abandoned a threatened investigation into the Bessborough mother and baby institution, despite the deaths of nearly 700 children. #spéirghorm www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...
July 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
Bessborough vigil hears survivors will chain themselves to diggers to stop building work
140 apartments are planned for the site of a mother and baby home where 923 children died
www.irishtimes.com
June 29, 2026 at 8:29 AM
923 children died at Bessborough Mother and Baby Home between 1922 and 1998. Only 64 have known graves. Utterly shameful decision by Cork City Council to build apartments on the site. More erasure of the historical mistreatment and shaming of women in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
Footage of the #Bessborough Commemoration is being uploaded as I post - they'll be uploaded to the Bessborough YouTube channel accessible here: www.youtube.com/@Bessborough... - subscribe to know when the videos go live. [but will tweet announcing when they've been uploaded]
#MotherAndBabyHomes
#MotherAndBabyHomes
Bessborough Missing
www.youtube.com
June 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Footage of the #Bessborough Commemoration is being uploaded as I post - they'll be uploaded to the Bessborough YouTube channel accessible here: www.youtube.com/@Bessborough... - subscribe to know when the videos go live. [but will tweet announcing when they've been uploaded]
#MotherAndBabyHomes
#MotherAndBabyHomes
My own. Saskatoon's historic Bessborough Hotel viewed from the middle of the Saskatchewan River.
#photography #castle
#photography #castle
March 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My own. Saskatoon's historic Bessborough Hotel viewed from the middle of the Saskatchewan River.
#photography #castle
#photography #castle
Revisiting some favourite shots taken on my #pentaxk1000.
These ones taken 6 years ago in Saskatoon. 🎞️
#yxe #believeinfilm #filmphotography
#staybrokeshootfilm
These ones taken 6 years ago in Saskatoon. 🎞️
#yxe #believeinfilm #filmphotography
#staybrokeshootfilm
November 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Revisiting some favourite shots taken on my #pentaxk1000.
These ones taken 6 years ago in Saskatoon. 🎞️
#yxe #believeinfilm #filmphotography
#staybrokeshootfilm
These ones taken 6 years ago in Saskatoon. 🎞️
#yxe #believeinfilm #filmphotography
#staybrokeshootfilm
Absolutely horrendous decision to substantially uphold planning permission for homes to be built on the grounds of Bessborough Mother & Baby institution.
We have not reckoned with this dreadful recent past and Bessborough has a key role in that reckoning.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
We have not reckoned with this dreadful recent past and Bessborough has a key role in that reckoning.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
'Have they no heart or soul?': State urged to CPO Bessborough lands to stop apartments being built
Survivors and campaigners have demanded the Government must compulsorily purchase the land after An Coimisúin Pleanála upheld decision to build apartments there on Thursday
www.irishexaminer.com
July 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Absolutely horrendous decision to substantially uphold planning permission for homes to be built on the grounds of Bessborough Mother & Baby institution.
We have not reckoned with this dreadful recent past and Bessborough has a key role in that reckoning.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
We have not reckoned with this dreadful recent past and Bessborough has a key role in that reckoning.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
Powerful protest outside the Dáil demanding that the Bessborough site be protected, not built on.
March 18, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Powerful protest outside the Dáil demanding that the Bessborough site be protected, not built on.
About time I shared this again. There is a live planning application on the grounds of #Bessborough. 761 children died on the premises. 859 are unaccounted for. 923 babies 31 women died. WHERE ARE THEY? Sign, share. Keep these children in your thoughts.
www.change.org/p/stop-futur...
www.change.org/p/stop-futur...
Sign the Petition
Stop future development on remaining Bessborough grounds!
www.change.org
March 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
About time I shared this again. There is a live planning application on the grounds of #Bessborough. 761 children died on the premises. 859 are unaccounted for. 923 babies 31 women died. WHERE ARE THEY? Sign, share. Keep these children in your thoughts.
www.change.org/p/stop-futur...
www.change.org/p/stop-futur...
December afternoon (2024) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
(Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
(Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
December 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
December afternoon (2024) #ArtAdventCalendar #Photography
(Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
(Bessborough Hotel, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
This day in history. 1931. Vere Brabazan Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, was appointed Governor-General of Canada because the Australians would never have taken him seriously.
February 9, 2024 at 11:06 AM
This day in history. 1931. Vere Brabazan Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, was appointed Governor-General of Canada because the Australians would never have taken him seriously.
Oh, Saskatchewan has vampires. The live in the Hotel Bessborough.
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Oh, Saskatchewan has vampires. The live in the Hotel Bessborough.
Leaside, 70 years ago today: Bessborough Drive Public School on New Year's Day, 1955.
📸: James Victor Salmon
Toronto Public Library
Bessborough Drive, east side, between Field Ave. & Sharron Dr., looking north from Hanna Rd., Toronto.
#OnThisDay #1950s #leaside #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin
📸: James Victor Salmon
Toronto Public Library
Bessborough Drive, east side, between Field Ave. & Sharron Dr., looking north from Hanna Rd., Toronto.
#OnThisDay #1950s #leaside #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin
January 1, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Leaside, 70 years ago today: Bessborough Drive Public School on New Year's Day, 1955.
📸: James Victor Salmon
Toronto Public Library
Bessborough Drive, east side, between Field Ave. & Sharron Dr., looking north from Hanna Rd., Toronto.
#OnThisDay #1950s #leaside #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin
📸: James Victor Salmon
Toronto Public Library
Bessborough Drive, east side, between Field Ave. & Sharron Dr., looking north from Hanna Rd., Toronto.
#OnThisDay #1950s #leaside #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin
I really appreciate every share on this episode - I’ve known Cindi for over a decade and this is her first time ever speaking publicly about what happened to her in Bessborough.
Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Bessborough survivor Cindi Bonny on the death of her baby Zoei in 1994
Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 31 July · 36min
podcasts.apple.com
August 3, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I really appreciate every share on this episode - I’ve known Cindi for over a decade and this is her first time ever speaking publicly about what happened to her in Bessborough.
🧵1/8
Time to reintroduce myself here as I feel invisible 🫥
I advocate for survivors of #CSA, I was abused by my grandfather from the age of 8 until I became pregnant & miscarried at 12.
I also advocate for the remaining #Bessborough #MotherandbabyHome grounds to be preserved.
Time to reintroduce myself here as I feel invisible 🫥
I advocate for survivors of #CSA, I was abused by my grandfather from the age of 8 until I became pregnant & miscarried at 12.
I also advocate for the remaining #Bessborough #MotherandbabyHome grounds to be preserved.
January 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🧵1/8
Time to reintroduce myself here as I feel invisible 🫥
I advocate for survivors of #CSA, I was abused by my grandfather from the age of 8 until I became pregnant & miscarried at 12.
I also advocate for the remaining #Bessborough #MotherandbabyHome grounds to be preserved.
Time to reintroduce myself here as I feel invisible 🫥
I advocate for survivors of #CSA, I was abused by my grandfather from the age of 8 until I became pregnant & miscarried at 12.
I also advocate for the remaining #Bessborough #MotherandbabyHome grounds to be preserved.
Bessborough campaigners seek judicial review over plan to build apartments at Cork site
The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Bessborough campaigners seek judicial review over plan to build apartments at Cork site
The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown
www.irishtimes.com
August 29, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Bessborough campaigners seek judicial review over plan to build apartments at Cork site
The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
The burial place of more than 800 children who spent time at Bessborough mother and baby institution is unknown
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
July 14, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
Bessborough survivor Cindi Bonny on the death of her baby Zoei in 1994
Podcast Episode · The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · 31 July · 36min
podcasts.apple.com
August 3, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Ireland’s notorious mother and baby institutions operated until the late 1990s. Zoei Bonny was the last baby to die under the care of Bessborough, in Cork, in 1994. Her mother Cindi shared her story with me a few days ago. Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...